Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes they sound like catty old fishwives. But this is a very male form of gossip -- verbal machismo. With their edgy patter, the guys test themselves, their friends, their victims; every conversation is a pop quiz with life on the line. And when they do shut up, it's often to blow someone away, or do drugs, or sink into edgy pensiveness. In Tarantino's film there are no comfortable silences...
...department even offers a special class geared toward those with verbal background in Chinese, Bartlett said. Students who can speak but lack reading and writing skills can take one of these "reduced track" Chinese classes...
Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate. The verbal battle over invasion was at bottom a difference of opinion over whether Haiti was worth any American deaths at all, whether they occurred during an invasion or in an attempt to police an unruly and often violent country. It also touched on a perennial national anxiety: when and under what circumstances the U.S. should ever use military force abroad...
Parizeau will also provoke a verbal confrontation with English Canada because Quebecers support of sovereignty has tradition been greatest when they are united against English Canada. All of this will be his claiming responsibility for the economic recovery already underway. And all of this manipulation will be done with tax-payers' money and without their...
...least half of the serious crimes committed by all boys of that age. What do those kids have in common? Criminal parents, many of them -- more than half of all kids in long-term juvenile institutions in the U.S. have immediate relatives who have been incarcerated. A low verbal- intelligence quotient and poor grades are also common. The boys tend to be both emotionally cold and impulsive. From an early age they drink and get high. By an early age too, they make their first noticeable trouble, sometimes around the third grade...