Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made it so is soft-spoken Paul Adams, 37, a black Protestant who took a pay cut from his job as manager at a fast-food outlet to become the school's $15,000-a-year principal in 1972. "He's mean," says a student, using a ghetto compliment. Also tough. Adams inherited the usual urban school woes. Says he: "There were kids on dope, gangs in the hallways. I was appalled." He instituted a shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class...
...same time, and when Scottie's turn comes to take the stage, he can only say: "You see be fore you a man who has absolutely no finish. I'm not kidding. I don't know how to get off." Playwright Slade might better have spoken the lines himself. His play does not end, but slides to a bathetic conclusion in unsightly puddles of tears and sweat...
...describe Hugh as "a self-made son of a bitch," was in San Francisco. And where was Sister Gloria, who prefers to march to her own drummer? Billy exhaled some cigarette smoke, sucked on his beer can and said, "How do I know? You know I haven't spoken to Gloria in 2½ years...
...third trips, it must improve and expand services. Only a few major cities have well-staffed visitor services that can help non-English-speaking tourists find their way about or locate a doctor on short notice. In hotels, restaurants and stores, it often seems that any language is spoken -just so it is English. Any money will be changed-so long as it is the U.S. dollar...
...proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home. Was he fired for having disgraced himself so? No. This was Tokyo, not New York. When the young man returned to work the next day, not a word was spoken about the previous evening. In Japanese fashion, his behavior was not held against him; in fact, the unpleasant incident was completely forgotten...