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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooper's over-fifty double chin and over-the-belt bulge go well with his British accent. But, his Anglophilic decorum seems incongruous among the insistent telephone calls and the stream of ambitious go-go-booted women who curtly pick up their rejected works. "The divorcees always invite me to their homes," he complains. "I usually refuse. One woman sends me obscene letters. Once she invited me to take a bath with her. I stopped reading her letters until she started writing about all the women who were trying to get me fired. Why? Because I didn't sell their...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: There's No Business Like . . . | 5/22/1974 | See Source »

Bernheimer smiles nervously with long triangular teeth stained at the top, and speaks through them with a thick, breathy German accent. When asked how he authenticates such a wide variety of objects, he quickly retorts, "How does a doctor know his patient is sick...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: There's No Business Like . . . | 5/22/1974 | See Source »

Tall and thin, with bristly white hair, Nickerson is still quite vigorous at 63. He is a Republican who tends toward the liberal wing and speaks with an aristocratic New England accent. A needle-point wall-hanging of a bald eagle holding the stars and stripes decorates one wall of the small study in his modest, modern ranch house in suburban Lincoln...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Who It Is | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...despite the accent on the first syllable, my name is clearly a repository for the English word 'alert,' as if the name is a thousand-year-old clay receptacle with paranoia curled up in the shape of a child's skeleton inside. I myself have always been quietly alert...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Waking To Sleep | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

Although she has lived in Palestine and Israel for more than 53 years, Mrs. Meir still speaks Hebrew with a distinctive Middle American accent. She was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev-her earliest memories, she told Pope Paul at the Vatican, were of pogroms-and immigrated to the U.S. at eight with her family. In Milwaukee, her home for nearly 15 years, she became Goldie Myerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Crisis That Became a Revolution | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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