Word: verbally
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Feelings are what Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, stands accused of hurting with her controversial remarks about antiabortion activists (they have a "love affair with the fetus," and so on). Elders is, as TIME put it, "a verbal bomb thrower." The sensitivities of Roman Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants were said to have been offended by her tart tongue. No doubt she wishes that she had bitten her tongue on an occasion or two. If that is not promotion of a stifling orthodoxy, what...
This week, when the Senate opens hearings on the Elders nomination, the rest of the U.S. will find out that the 59-year-old Arkansas public-health director is still a little different. While she has the bedside manner of the white- coated physician, she has also been a verbal bomb thrower, trying to wake up Arkansas citizenry to the health crises in teenage pregnancy and AIDS by promoting sex education, birth control and freedom of choice on abortion. Just after her appointment in 1987, Elders was asked if school-based clinics would dispense contraceptives. She replied...
Members of the softball team had initially threatened to take action against Dartmouth in July 1991, The Dartmouth said. The complaint charges that the team had a verbal commitment from college officials to convert softball to varsity status over a three-year period, but officials later reneged...
...Fairtest report cites examples of biased metaphors in the verbal section, such as "dividends is to stock-holders" and "checkmate is to chess...
...good student, who on his SAT tests got "great verbal, nonexistent math. I was so bad at math I assumed any college would say, 'Well, we just won't ask him to add.' " The college turned out to be Yale. By now Paul knew he was gay, but he didn't worry about the local reaction. "Anyone from Jersey," he says, "would assume everyone at Yale was gay. Once you're educated above a certain point, to the rest of the world you're a big sissy...