Word: asker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town of Belluno, where he taught for several years, his old friend Archbishop Maffeo Ducoli said: "People are crying in the streets and in the shops as if someone in their family had died." He was a teacher with a remarkable gift for explaining things through unexpected metaphors, an asker of sharp questions, a man who could defend conservative values without seeming pompous or rigid to the young...
...women discuss their problems and act out some hypothetical conflicts, like dealing with an overpassionate boy friend or an excessively demanding boss. They practice refusing a request by using some techniques already familiar to other women who, though unschooled in the art, are naturally talented in assertiveness. When the asker is especially persistent, for example, the women may use the "broken record" technique: a simple, repeated no. Another favorite of assertiveness teachers is "fogging"-saying no while generously agreeing with one's adversary. ("I'm sure that as you say, I need these encyclopedias...