Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person who's calling usually doesn't realize that five people have answered the phone. He or she thinks there's just some funny echo in the phone line. So they say, for instance, "Can I speak to Jim?" and Jim says "This is he" and the rest of us slink away...
...other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe feels that the quality of the food at Harvard is inexcusably...
Ronald Reagan's new book, Speaking My Mind, allows him to speak his mind the second time a little differently. In a March 4, 1987, speech on the day of the Tower commission report, Reagan said he "didn't ask enough about the specifics of the total Iran plan." In the introduction to the speech in his book, Reagan has a new explanation for the Iran-contra affair. He wonders whether the whole thing was "a setup, a sting operation, by the Iranians." Over to you, Ollie...
With at first 100 people, then 50, and finally as few as 30 lingering for a pro-choice speak-out at the Yard last Tuesday, ambivalence seemed to reflect developments in Pennsylvania and Florida, where state legislatures took opposite sides on new restrictions of abortion rights...
Leaders from Students for Choice saidattendance at the speak-out did not reflectstudent commitment to the issue, but ratherundergraduates' busy schedules...