Word: soft-spoken
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...worked hard to instill discipline in a department that is relatively inexperienced (70% of its officers have been on the force five years or less) and that on occasion has lost control of crowds, most recently during a speech given by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in April. Soft-spoken but decisive, Murphy drives his own unmarked car and practices what he calls "management by walking around." Says he: "I know my department, and I know my city. There's a relationship there...
Walter Mondale wanted to look tough. Gary Hart sought to suggest the ferment of new ideas. Ronald Reagan came along, in a soft-spoken way, because he had money to burn. Even House Republicans entered the act to protest the partisanship of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. As the primary campaign reached its final week and seemingly every conceivable thought had been uttered, politicians aplenty inundated the air waves with new, improved and, in some cases, conspicuously nasty commercials...
...Southern Africa's knottiest diplomatic problem: achieving independence for the South African-controlled territory of Namibia. The developments were a sorely needed foreign policy victory for the Reagan Administration. After three years of deep involvement in all of the negotiations, the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement," or soft-spoken diplomacy with South Africa, appeared to be vindicated...
...star Bundeswehr General Gert Bastian quit the Greens last month, complaining of the creeping influence of the party's Marxist-Leninist faction and "a strong anti-American undertow." Elected last year as one of the party's 28 Green Deputies in the Bundestag, the gray-haired and soft-spoken 60-year-old was one of the few Greens with appeal to middle-class citizens seeking an alternative to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), West Germany's mainstream left-leaning party. Said Bastian of the internal feuding that encouraged him to resign: "In my entire life I have...
Fred Coe was not a suspect. His father, Gordon, was the soft-spoken managing editor of the local afternoon paper; his family, respected residents of the city's South Hill district. Extroverted, with a live-in girlfriend, flashy cars and mercantile schemes of fabulous marketing strategies, Coe fit no precinct's violent-crime profile. But his private life might have come from a chapter of Krafft-Ebing...