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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--CIA Director William Casey, who underwent surgery last month for removal of a brain tumor, is unable to speak, walk or control the right side of his body, according to ABC News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Casey Unable to Return to CIA Directorship | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

Imagine a world of peace, unity and oneness. A world where racial and religious strife has ceased to exist, where people worship, govern, and even speak as one. To more than three million people around the globe today this is not some unattainable utopia, but a vision destined to become reality...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: BAHA'IS AT HARVARD: | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Sometimes I used to think, What's happening to me? For a time I thought I couldn't speak English anymore because I had nobody to talk to. I really deteriorated. Nobody wore shoes there because it was so dusty. We wore "step- ins." We went to the local movie, but there were fleas and bedbugs galore, so we'd have to bring our raincoats to put on the chairs. (more laughter) I guess I must really have been in love with my husband to have put up with all of this. He used to tease me later that those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year: Cory Aquino, A Christmas Conversation | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Having changed the rules of Philippine politics, moreover, the self- professed housewife often finds herself judged by the old rules. In restoring her country's freedoms, for example, she is content to go about her business while Marcos loyalists stir up trouble in the streets and Cabinet ministers speak their minds to the 26 daily newspapers in rumor-mad Manila. The resulting appearance of dissentious sound and fury is, she says, simply a sign of the government's self-confident strength: democracy in action. Others take it for weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...once her jailed husband's ambassador to the world, much as Winnie Mandela works in the name of her imprisoned husband Nelson. In overthrowing Marcos, moreover, Aquino helped erase a whole volume of shibboleths. She showed that politics could be the art of the impossible; that force could speak softly and carry a small stick; that religion could be not % the opium but the stimulant of the masses; that nice guys, whatever their gender, sometimes finish first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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