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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sherover, director of the Lingua-phone Institute, decided that St. Louis women have the country's sexiest voices. He explained that they speak with "river bottom throb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...scrapped the U.S. plans for the ceremony, sent American subordinate officers to the rear of the platform, ruled out friendly U.S. messages to the people of Hiroshima. As honor guests on the platform he installed the members of an Australian parliamentary delegation. When he rose to speak, he briefly delivered MacArthur's greetings, then referred to the bombing of Hiroshima in words the Japanese have not heard for some time. Said Brasshat Robertson: "This disaster was your own fault. . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Hotfoot in Hiroshima | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...were trying to treat the Danubian states "as a cook treats potatoes." That was too much for icy, pink Sir Charles Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Cook & the Potatoes | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Polite, Happy Yankees | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Then wake me not, speak in an undertone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Night | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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