Word: softspoken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent in five to ten deprogrammers at a time to work on her. "They told me I was crazy, possessed by demons. They said I hated...
Richard Kieninger is a softspoken, bespectacled Chicagoan who believes that he has a holy task-preparing for civilization's destruction. He and his followers are currently building a Noah's Ark community on the Illinois plains, where they hope to survive a series of disasters that they believe lie in store for most of the rest of mankind...
Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
...that he will take advantage of his retirement to "sharpen up my golf, do some more sailing, travel, and spend more time with my family. I've had 37 years of fun working with IBM. My wife and I now want to have some fun loafing." Spectacled and softspoken, Cary offers a noticeable contrast to his imposing and forceful predecessor. But Cary is not expected to introduce any alterations to IBM management style. Says a former IBM financial executive: "At IBM, the players may come and go, but the play remains the same...
Less on display but working just as hard behind the scenes were other softspoken, steely, resolute women intent on hammering out a party platform that would recognize women's rightful role in the G.O.P. The Republicans' answer to Gloria Steinem was Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency. "She has helped to de-radicalize the movement in the eyes of Republican women," says Kitty Clyde, a comely press aide to Anne Armstrong. De-radicalize? A phrase is born. A Roman Catholic mother of five with the clear-eyed look of a swimming instructor...