Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeannie: I was sitting at a table with him this summer and he watched his wife [Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73] speak about the time that they met, and he cried. I will hold a huge soft spot for that man for the rest of my life...
...Anna's a fast talker. Oftentimes, she's so eager to speak that she forget words. Usually contractions or articles she skips. "Aaron, story consulting good this week!" she'll pant...
...speak from personal experience. As a college student in the 1980s, I spent a summer working as an intern in a hospital pharmacy. Whenever we received a prescription order, I would go to the stock shelves, find the right bottle and count out the number of pills that were called for. A registered pharmacist verified my work and swept the pills into a container with the patient's name, which was then delivered to the appropriate floor. One day I put a weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist...
...contagion (Richard Collier's The Plague of the Spanish Lady or Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic) may be surprised to learn that science has yet to discover what made that particular flu virus so deadly. Though no longer a threat, the mass killer is, so to speak, still at large...
...basic titillation of the tale is intact in Anna and the King: the grieving widow is, as usual, brought back to life by the affection (which dares not speak its name) that develops between her and the sexy King. Of course, since they started telling and retelling this story, miscegenation has become a nonstarter as a cause for sundering true love. Hence the thought that Anna and the monarch might logically repair to a quiet room in the palace to relieve their headaches keeps nagging as this movie unfolds...