Word: verbalizer
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...parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward like primates), heightens children's school performances (verbal and mathematical scores rocket), and even helps to hone More's wife's tournament Bridge game: "This lady knows where the cards are. I don't know how she knows but she knows. I don't think she knows she knows either. It is as if she had a little computer...
...headquarters near Charlotte, officials were putting on an optimistic face. Said Dortch: "We really believe there is a tremendous future for this ministry. Our telephone calls have been overwhelmingly supportive." Yet to be determined is whether those expressions of verbal support will translate into the flow of gifts from trusting supporters that are constantly needed to keep any ministry like PTL in operation...
Some phones come with voice-recognition devices that enable them to follow verbal orders. These phones have proved especially popular with drivers, who can make a call while keeping both hands on the wheel. Innovative Devices, of Santa Clara, Calif., sells a car phone that "listens" for about $200. Once the owner has programmed up to 100 names, along with the corresponding numbers, he simply tells the phone to call George or Leslie...
...Urban legends, despite their comtemporary sound, display the same characteristics as older verbal folklore. They pass from person to person by word of mouth, they are retained in group traditions, and they are invariably found in different versions through time and space."--Jan Brunvand, The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends...
When he found some words, he kept stopping himself and trying to rephrase his sentiments. Exasperated, he surrendered. His verbal expressions couldn't do justice to his real emotions...