Word: bespeak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite mundane--flushable toilets, electricity, and cars: Good Housekeeping magazine is their window on the promised land. What makes their prosaic vision doubly absurd is the peaceful beauty of their own surroundings: the vivid, innocent colors of the Indians' clothing and buildings; the quivering flowers and butterflies which bespeak a continual breeze; the soothing strum of a villager's harp; and the background warbling of exotic birds...
...defense increases, however, bespeak an even more dangerous evil in our society. President Reagan arrived in Washington advocating a policy of international confrontation and the boost in the defense budget is but one example of the militarism that dominates Washington today. Reagan's refusal to keep his promise to end draft registration is another. An agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) was one of the few achievements of the Carter administration (ultimately undone in the Senate), and the Reagan administration's reluctance to discuss disarmament or even arms limits shows paranoia getting the best of common sense...
...signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general
...territory west of the Emerald Isle and south of the Canadian commonwealth, users of the dreaded "u" intend the letter to bespeak Old World sophistication and disdain for the intellectual squalor of the former colonies. Colour has the weight of Empire behind it; color is a graceless contraction...