Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solids" (English, history, math, science, foreign language), and especially on English composition. English is the key to college work; by 1970 an estimated one-fourth of applicants may be rejected because they get so little of it. This is why the most important college board exam today is the verbal aptitude test (scored from 200 to 800). Falling much below 500 is bad news-"infant damnation," cracks one educator...
...major daily critics stood 5-2 against the play with various qualifications, including praise for the cast. But by careful selection, the ad performed wonders of verbal alchemy. Samples...
...more striking than the odor and abundance of verbal onions flung by speaker after speaker at TIME'S coverage of Kwame Nkrumah and Tom Mboya was the evident, marked apathy of almost the whole audience of half a thousand persons. Their mood, in sharp and significant contrast with the onstage pyrotechnics was, I think, a reassuring earnest of the common sense and natural warmth accorded the U.S. throughout Accra. Restless, unawed, good-humored, but occasionally stirred at mention of their country's independence, the crowd resembled nothing quite so much as a latter-day July 4 gathering...
Monsignor Ronald Knox was skittish about moths, mice and telephones. He was at his ease among pogo sticks (once he navigated a flight of stairs on one), the pipe smoke and verbal parry of Oxford common rooms, Latin verse and the English language. Temperamentally an esthete, he nonetheless made sense and clarity the chief goals of his monumental translation of the Bible. Intellectually the most ornamental English convert to Roman Catholicism since John Henry Newman, he was too diffident and self-effacing to aspire to a cardinal's red hat. His was the subtler role of a kind...
...story for the Crimson is the balanced play all the way through the lineup. Figures speak better than verbal comparison: the first, second, and third lines have scored, respectively, 10, 11, and 9 goals, while the defense has tallied 10 goals. The team scoring leaders are closely bunched: Jim Dwinell and Stew Forbes 12 points, Mike Graney 10, Dave Crosby and Bruce Thomas 8, Dean Alpine, Bob Anderson, Dave Grannis and Tom Heintzman...