Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consciousness in the back seat, the Ginsburg #1, stops his contortions to point like a land-sighting sailor at the topmast and shout--"Human!", and it is so, this desert space contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs and wakes long enough to speak: "Man, what would happen if Richard Nixon turned on? I mean, if he just had one joint, man--he'd call the whole thing off..." and out again, a dormouse, a lump of cloth once animate but no more, and turning to contemplate the mystery of a consciousness come and gone...
Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural...
...come from a typical Italian family," says Teresa. "My mother wanted me to teach dancing. The first year I arm wrestled she wouldn't speak to me. Now she's proud of all my trophies...
...dieted to a mere 275 for today's event. He has a menacing black beard that hides his face, ravaged at age 30. Bob used to have a problem with drugs and alcohol, or as he puts it, "They had a grip on me. But no more. Now I speak against drugs to kids at church groups. This is the sideline for the working guys of the world. They come to the table, take off their carpenter's belt, and for 20 seconds they're superheroes...
Belgium is a land of 5.6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings, 3.2 million French- speaking Walloons and, since World War II, no fewer than 33 governments. Most of those formed since the late 1960s have faltered over the contentious question of who should speak what language where. Last week the issue claimed its latest victim as Prime Minister Wilfried Martens resigned...