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Word: spokenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morning at a West Coast high school. The first-period bell rings, barely audible above the classroom din. "O.K., everybody, settle down," says the soft-spoken teacher of the course called Modern Problems. Her two dozen students, grouped around seven tables, pay scant attention. She switches on a video machine by her desk; a neatly categorized outline flashes on the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...month appearances in the Chicago Daily News entitled "A time to live ..." are written for those who live under the shadow of death-either their own or that of someone close to them. As she wryly points out, Graham, 50, is herself on that "endangered list." An attractive, soft-spoken author and public relations counsel, she has lost both breasts to cancer, and this year learned that the disease had spread to her spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Time to Write | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...politics: Makavejev has been interviewed frequently in this country, where he has spent a large part of his time since 1968. As one of five directors of the year, he was interviewed in the International Film Guide 1973, along with Bergman and Bresson. But he has never, until now, spoken candidly to journalists about himself and his personal philosophy...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Dusan Makavejev: A Film-maker Teaches Film | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Another freshman, Johanna Forman, said yesterday, "It feels very good to win the Ivy championship." Forman, who has been sick for almost two weeks said she had not run her best. But the soft-spoken native of Falmouth praised her teammates as "a good group of kids with a lot of spirit...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Sullivan Leads Radcliffe Romp To Ivy Cross-Country Title | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...contest began, Scalise's portentious words, spoken before the opening whistle, Harvard "is cold and flat," seemed only too prophetic. Yale's speedy right wing. Betsy Rapperport, and her counterpart on the left, Nancy Erzwhiler, spearheaded Eli attacks which kept the Crimson deep in their own half of the large field...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women's Soccer Quiets Bulldogs, 2-0 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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