Word: misspeak
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...Boston news conference, Dukakis tried to quash the rumors once and for all. "I've never gotten any professional counseling," the Governor said. "I normally look to my family for support when I need it." Dukakis also seized the opportunity to rise magnanimously above Reagan. "We all occasionally misspeak," he said. "I don't really think the President had to apologize." Gerald Plotkin, Dukakis' doctor since 1971, released a detailed three-page report pronouncing Dukakis "in excellent health and physical shape." Wrote Plotkin: "He has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment." Before the week ended, Dukakis set aside...
Died. Jane Ace, 74, who teamed with her husband, Comedy Writer Goodman Ace, in the popular radio comedy show of the '30s and '40s, Easy Aces, in which he played irritated straight man to her befuddled mistress of misspeak; in Manhattan. Among her inspired malapropisms: "Time wounds all heels" and "Doctor, feel my purse...