Word: verbalizer
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Loose talk about Reaganomics brings a verbal thrashing from the President...
...debate about Coolidge will go on. The verbal sketches in William Allen White's 1938 biography A Puritan in Babylon still loom large in public memory: "Flinty-faced, sugar-cured and hickory-smoked, the wordless Yankee joss sitting cross-legged in the, cosmos"; the world was "running madly extravagant"; Coolidge "stood, blinking at the tidal forces he could not fathom." If Reagan's economics fail, historians may say the same about him. If supply-side succeeds in some fashion, Reagan will not only give himself a boost in history but win a few more years of White House...
...energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...
...distinguish between short-term "coaching," which it calls ineffective, and long-term "intensive training," which it now concedes can raise scores. Before making this distinction, Slack and Porter say, ETS misled students into thinking that even a school year's worth of special preparation would not affect math or verbal aptitude as measured by the SAT. Cameron of the College Board agrees that his organization has shifted its rhetoric on the effects of long-term coaching, but he denies any deliberate misrepresentation, saying, "We came to the realization that the distinction was not clear to students." He joins ETS vice...
Because the Faculty Council expressed "quite a few doubts...about a variety of aspects" of the constitution at a meeting last week with student representatives, Rosovsky said last night he has given all council members "a verbal order" to give the constitution "a close reading" and to forward suggestions to the student-faculty committee...