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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lynn Fontanne, actress, on her 55-year marriage to the late Alfred Lunt: "We usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were sort of realistic actors, we became those two people. I had an affair with him, so to speak, and he with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...referendum would probably make the likes of Robert LaFollette twist in their graves. But last week the Supreme Court gave corporations the go-ahead to spend whatever they please. The court's reason? Corporations have at least one thing in common with the individual: the right to speak out on governmental issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Burger's Blast | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Ticket Agent: You speak French! (he salutes): What joys! Vive the States United! May I wax your elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waxed Elbow | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Black Mask offices. One story, The Shrieking Skeleton, was marked up as the lead piece for an issue, just to give the editor a good scare. The art of suspense did not come easily to Erie Stanley Gardner. He never did learn much about writing character, not to speak of description. But he became a master plotter and one of the most prolific and successful authors who ever lived; 82 Perry Mason novels, which have sold over 300 million copies, are only part of his output (over the years he took several pseudonyms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master Plotter | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...nature of any "presidency" allows the occupant of the office to speak with courage and plan with vision and insight. As Andrew Jackson said of his job: "One man with courage makes a majority." Clearly, President Bok is not such a man. He has spoken with style but without substance; hence, his plan is one of stunning gutlessness. Clearly, students should not expect anything more from President Bok than competent administration in carrying out his more routine duties--he has abdicated any leadership role he could hope to have played on any issue of student concern. Students can only take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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