Word: orally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast, said U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker last week. The oral and written confessions were obtained illegally, Parker ruled, and the "relentless questioning" of the hijacker violated his constitutional rights. Parker noted that Younis had been read his Miranda rights, but that several crucial words had been left...
...exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...
Swaggart's tearful confession came at a perilous moment, not only for him but for the raucous world of TV evangelism, which was still stumbling toward recovery after a disastrous 1987. Oral Roberts kicked off last year's proceedings by announcing to an incredulous public a divine mandate to raise $8 million, or God would "call me home." Then it was Jim and Tammy Bakker and the revelation of Jim's payment of $265,000 in ministry funds to cover up sexual straying. Next came the revelations of the Bakkers' morass of financial mismanagement and personal aggrandizement at PTL. Suddenly...
...school. Known as a "hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
Five of the short stories to appear in Goodman's book were published in Commentary, a magazine published by the American Jewish Committee. Two plays by Goodman, "Oral History" and "The Wave," were performed at Leverett House last semester. She has also published poetry in the New England Sampler and the Honolulu Quarterly...