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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says now that he still can't understand just why it happened. Nor can three incredulous roommates, one of whom said he'd never seen anything like it in his life. "He could hardly speak, his eyes were sunk and hollow, he lost his mental faculties," recounted Joe's once and present roommate. But as all painful experiences tend to end, Joe says he has emerged from the devastating stretch with a lesson well-learned, and a good attitude toward exams...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

With the deck stacked against them, unemployed strikers with families to support have shown remarkable restraint--possibly due to the historically difficult position of many Cambion workers: half are women, and a third are Portuguese-Americans, many of whom cannot speak English. However, in recent weeks Cambion has succeeded in bringing in 15 former strikers to work. Few other union members are likely to follow, but there are rumors among the strikebreakers that Cambion plans to begin bringing in new outside workers. Such a move would represent a serious provocation, with potentially disastrous consequences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Issues Surrounding The Strike At Cambion | 10/13/1976 | See Source »

...left side of her neck and shoulder. For a short period, she can still dazzle with one of the brightest smiles in American politics; but when she does venture onto the hustings, Ford's staffers are under strict instructions to see that she is not required to speak or stand for any period of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: It's a Clash of the Clans | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Oftentimes, Leonard would speak out so forthrightly that the president would respond by qualifying it," one UHall administrator said yesterday. "But he was in no way objecting...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: A goodbye to Walter J. Leonard | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

Lynn, who was also in Boston to speak at a Republican fund-raiser and to talk about the administration's programs with newspaper editors in Boston, said that "the voters face a decision between the president--an honest man with very specific programs--and Carter, a pig in a poke...

Author: By M. BRETT Gladstone, | Title: Lawyers Celebrate Reunion, Success | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

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