Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday night, Clinton had called and spoken to the bereaved families of all 33 American victims, inviting them to join him at a memorial service Saturday afternoon at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. That was just the kind of reach-out-and-touch gesture Brown would have made. It was a skill he learned to develop early on. A son of New York City's black aristocracy, his first and perhaps most important lessons were imparted not by the wealthy prep schools he would attend as a teenager but by the human parade passing through his home, Harlem...
...type only too well. Almost every undergraduate returns home for vacations with horror stories about classmates who refuse to obey the rules of proper hygeine. We all see fellow students who lock themselves in their rooms for hours at a time and who only respond in grunts when spoken...
...leave it out they did. According to the The Five Gospels, only 18% of the words ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels may have actually been spoken by him. John was eliminated completely; only one sentence in Mark met muster. Of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, the only words in red were "Our Father" and "Love your enemies," and four other brief sayings...
...just such a nice guy," she says. "It's really surprising if he's the one. He's really the last person you would expect. He's really soft spoken. I just would never expect something like that...
Milken was stunned. "I'd mentally got myself geared up to the realization that I had prostate cancer," he recalls. "I'd gotten over the 'Why me?' and spoken to a number of friends who had had successful surgery. That's where I was going to make my stand." Now what? Searching for an answer, he scheduled a bone-marrow test at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to determine if the cancer had spread to his bones. If it had, his life expectancy would be measured in months, and he was hardly sanguine about the outcome...