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Word: verbal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...good drama playing at my local theater." Instead, I had to say "movies" (pause), "Upper West Side" (pause), "drama" (pause). Then, after listening to a long list of films, I had to bark out more commands to get show times. Speaking like a robot and getting lost in a verbal maze was so annoying I was forced more than once to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak Up, Will Ya? | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...TONY BLAIR: His simplified handwriting (no extra strokes) shows a facile mind and excellent social skills. He has a high degree of intellectual and verbal acuity and a good sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analyze This | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...caller reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that two individuals were involved in a fight. Officers arrived and found two chess players having a verbal argument. Peace was restored...

Author: By Elise E. Chahla and Rajae Merzoug, S | Title: Police Log | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...club requires that men be six-foot-two and women be five-foot-ten. It provides social outlets, moral support for tall people--who sometimes feel the sting of verbal jabs about height--and a venue where they can trade secrets on clothing stores, airlines and hotels that accomodate tall people...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: On the Subway, Size Does Matter | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...verbal type such as myself learned about Mendel and the fruit flies. Sunday nights some of us gathered to prepare the maps of Europe to be handed in every Monday for History 1. Professor Percy Bridgman won the Nobel Prize in physics that year...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, CLASS OF 1950 | Title: Veteran Tinge Invades Harvard Yard | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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