Word: verbalizer
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...Friday, Federal civil-rights mediators descended on the town of Ovett, Mississippi to take on their first gay-harassment case. A lesbian couple attempting to found what The New York Times described as "a feminist and lesbian retreat and conference center" had met powerful resistance from the community, including verbal and written threats and a dead dog draped over their mailbox. Fears of violence brought the mediators from Washington to investigate...
Literally, dyslexia means inadequate learning or mastery of verbal language. Dyslexia is defined by the National Dyslexia Research Foundation (NDRF) as a "neurologically based disorder that inhibits orderly acquisition and processing of linguistic information...
...doomsday predictions he inspires, Chernomyrdin has both his rhetoric and behavior to thank. Since taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state...
...Plummer's fussiness and dither are a natural outgrowth of the feline, even feminine, nature of many of his heroes (and most of his villains). But his raddled face, Einstein coiffure and teetery walk are new and, surprisingly from this most mannered of actors, feel free of mannerism. The verbal cut and thrust between them is the finest now on Broadway -- elegantly bloodless and as ferocious as a slaughterhouse...
...request of some guy from Seattle named Cobain, who's been a big Raincoats fan for years). If they're famous for anything, the Raincoats are famous for their feminism. Ana da silva, Gina Birch, Vicki Aspinall, Shirley O'Loughlin and Palmolive not only avoided the musical and verbal cliches of 50s-style 1-2-3-4 rock and roll-cliches the first wave of (male) punks had just copied; the Raincoats actually said to the British music press that they wanted to avoid those cliches, because they (the cliches) were male whereas they (the Raincoats) were all female...