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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve Armstrong doesn't operate that way. He's cool. Cucumber cool. And he lets his actions speak...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Home Not Always So Sweet | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...shocking that the high court so clearly--and correctly--recognizes the schools' mission to teach students moral and political values yet is blind to the fact that among the most fundamental democratic values is the citizen's right to speak forcefully about the affairs of the day. Newly empowered school officials would do well to remember that--regardless of the Court's unfortunate decision--no school can be judged successful if it fails to teach that lesson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court Hijinx | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

Gone now is the pretense that the G.O.P. combatants will abide by Ronald Reagan's cherished Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans." With Iranscam taking some of the air out of his heir-apparent appeal, Bush must continue to prove that he can be a candidate of rough-and- tumble as well as resume. Dole's efforts to project smiling serenity never last long; his style is attack, and sarcasm his weapon. As a result, the race has become a sometimes angry clash of personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Bites Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...people who should speak the language of literature: for literature transcends history, speaks of today and possibly tomorrow, while the state forever stands for yesterday," he writes...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Why Johnny Can't Rule | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...perfect society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan In the Land of Mickey-San | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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