Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steiner said the maximum sentence for this crime is life imprisonment. "Though I haven't spoken to the prosecution I assume that unless the coins are returned, the judge will consider a very serious sentence," he added...
...find the church door locked, services suspended, and the minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, awaiting him outside. As the TV cameras rolled, Edwards told King that the church deacons had decided to uphold a 1965 resolution prohibiting "Negroes and civil rights agitators" from joining the church. Edwards himself had spoken out against the anti-black policy. (Carter left the board of deacons when he became Governor...
...sorry preamble to a sad evening, the publicity agent makes a little speech before each performance, asking audience to "tell all your friends about us." The woman is truly pathetic but as these are the last honest words to be spoken to the theatre, my advice is this: go hear some high quality grovelling and then split quick before you get trapped into seeing the abomination that follows...
Larry Weinstein is very tactful. In his earnest but soft spoken manner, he explained that the Writing Center does not pretend that there is only one way to write. The staff only tries to suggest new approaches that might enable the student to express himself more easily...
...Passive. Biagio Morelli, 39, a soft-spoken Parma city employee, went even further. He organized Italy's first real consumer boycott. Soon the cramped office of his all-volunteer Confederation of Consumers was filled with irate housewives eager to demonstrate or to sign petitions calling for an investigation. Says Morelli, who charges that the wholesalers made $40 million profit on the operation: "People always said the Italian consumer was too passive and uninformed to be organized. Yet look at the effect...