Word: softspoken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such vast self-assertion would be breathtaking were the phrases not delivered by a softspoken, low-keyed, ever smiling Southerner, who also says that he has been "twice born"?the second time when he "committed" himself to Jesus. So far in this campaign, Jimmy Carter, 51, has been the surprise and irritant of the politics-as-usual world. Hardly anybody took the former Georgia Governor very seriously a year ago, when he started running for the presidency in his friendly, dogged way. Since then, he has covered a lot of territory and obviously made many converts. Although...
Diffident at first about politics, Rosalynn soon learned how to be at home on the hustings. Her delivery is like her husband's: softspoken, low-keyed but highly persuasive. Today her status is separate but equal. She and Jimmy campaign apart and take turns going home to Plains each week for two or three days of rest and recuperation and family renewal. "What I liked about the Navy," says Rosalynn, "is what I like about politics. You see your old friends again and again?those with whom you have shared experiences...
Sandwiched between his softspoken rebuttal of Democratic backbiting at the Cradle of Liberty and his late afternoon take-off from Logan was a handshaking blitz at the Cradle of Monopoly--the Parker Brothers' games factory in Salem...
...Enemies. Hua may have emerged as a compromise choice in part because his very lack of visibility made him a man with few enemies. Affable and softspoken, with a thick Hunanese accent, Hua is described by foreign visitors as politically adroit and nondoctrinaire. It helped that he comes from Mao's native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow...
...1920s ragtime was forgotten. So was the softspoken, thoughtful Joplin, a friendly man who had always been willing to listen to other musicians. He was apparently something of a wandering lover, as the dedications of The Sycamore to Minnie L. Montgomery and Leola to Miss Minnie Wade suggest. But he craved the comfort and security of marriage. His first failed: the former Belle Hayden had no interest in his music, and their baby daughter died in infancy. His second marriage, to Lottie Stokes, seemed perfect, and Lottie stood by him as he exhausted himself and his money trying...