Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, clever (and usually battery-powered) computer- toys has arrived in full beep. But beeps are not the extent of the commotion; in a couple of astonishing cases, the new gadgets will play games with their owners while announcing the moves and commenting on the play in understandable spoken English, or in one of several other languages that the purchaser may choose. Some of the toys are musical, and some are rolling, programmable robot vehicles...
...interests. I regarded him as just an adventurer, who found in Stalin's very ruthlessness something to admire, as his father, St. John Philby, the Arabist, had found in King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Anyway, his appalling stutter would have precluded any sort of Marxist dissertation: Marx spoken is bad enough, but Marx stuttered would be intolerable...
...most important cogs in the Harvard defensive machine was soft-spoken Peter Coppinger, the sophomore defensive back whose two interceptions sealed the Eli bier...
...corridors of the White House one picks up a fascinating catalogue of tiny refinements, adjustments and changes that Carter's people declare he has made in himself. Some of them: accepting the fact that others often know more than he does, sensing the impact of eloquence in the spoken word, understanding that there need be no conflict between morality and great power, acknowledging that people of wealth and position can help the nation, learning that litigating endlessly and sounding nice is not leadership and that preaching can often do more harm than good...
...junior year, the sopt-spoken Falmouth native takes no unnecessary risks with her natural gifts. Her practice sessions, like those of several other teammates, are carefully tailored by assistant coach John Babbington to avoid the unnatural stress that so often causes problems in runners...