Word: soft-spoken
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...best male pop vocal (Thriller). The sylphlike Prince of Pop even dominated the show's commercial breaks. His two eagerly awaited Pepsi-Cola ads made their debut during the 3½-hr. telecast. There was an unusual extra thrill for his tirelessly squealing fans when the soft-spoken superstar removed his dark glasses just once, explaining, "My friend Katharine Hepburn told me I should...
...have to give George Washington a lot of credit," the soft-spoken Floridian said on the birthday of the nation's first President. "He was the one who held it all together...
...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...
Benjamin Rosen, 50, a major investor in Lotus Development and chairman of Compaq Computer. Sophisticated and possessing a soft-spoken wit, Rosen earned electrical-engineering degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford and worked first for Raytheon as an engineer. While still in his 20s, he decided to become a stock analyst. He picked up an M.B.A. degree, worked for Coleman & Co., a New York securities firm, and then for Morgan Stanley & Co. and began publishing a highly regarded electronics-industry newsletter...
...into eight smaller companies, which takes effect on New Year's Day, will be felt by every person in the U.S. who uses a phone, or expects to benefit from new communications technologies that the breakup should inspire. The man who supervised this landmark case is an unassuming, soft-spoken German refugee, virtually unknown outside a small circle of jurists. Yet Federal Judge Harold H. Greene, 60, in an extraordinary display of judicial activism, has, almost singlehanded, determined the shape of the nation's new telecommunications system...