Word: verbalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most countries can piously deny their involvement. As last week's verbal cross fire over Libya indicated, it is not easy to distinguish between factories that manufacture fertilizers, pesticides or pharmaceutical products and those that produce chemical weapons. Experts say that with just the turn of some levers or the change of a catalyst, a plant can convert from the production of pest killers to people killers in as little as 24 hours. Small wonder, then, that the U.S. spurned Libya's offer for a one-time inspection of the facility at Rabta...
...idea Mitchell has for a new Core course deals with the literary impact of witchcraft and might begin "all the way back at the golden ass." Mitchell also mentions his idea for the possibility of a "supra-national course on verbal abuse and verbal praise...
...good; whether he is sitting or standing his movements simply flow. And this aspect of Starr's performance makes Nick believable because Nick is a consummate athlete who is completely comfortable with his body. In the opening scenes, Starr acts as a great straight man for the sarcastic, verbal abuse that Anthony Korotko Hatch (George) dishes...
...Americans admitted to Harvard in 1982 and 1983 had SAT scores 50 to 100 points higher than their white counterparts." As pointed out in the January statement, the largest difference for any year was 50 points, and the typical difference in a given year in 40 points for the verbal and mathematics SATs combined. The Crimson is not alone in its error. One recent article published in a journal, The Public Interest, mistakenly reported a 112-point difference in the combined SAT verbal and mathematics scores for admitted Asian American and white students...
...estrogen, a female sex hormone, rises sharply before ovulation, about midway in the cycle, and then drops again before menstruation occurs. In a study of 200 women, Doreen Kimura, a University of Western Ontario psychology professor, found that when levels of estrogen were high, the women showed greater verbal fluency and used their hands more skillfully than when levels were low. In one test of verbal dexterity, the women were asked to say "A box of mixed biscuits in a biscuit mixer" as fast as possible five times. Their average time was 14 sec. on high-estrogen days...