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Word: faciturn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ineligible to vote in the Presidential election, I spent a week in November working in a hospital. The day before the election, few people there said they knew how they would vote. The next day, after Ronald Reagan's surprising landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, one of the heretofore faciturn doctors offered an explanation something like this, "I voted for Reagan," he said, with his head turned down a bit. "I guess I was one of the few million closet Reaganires people too embarrassed to admit before the election that we were going to vote for an old actor, someone...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Opening Doors | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

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