Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 30 years of sermonizing, Billy Graham [Dec. 1] uttered the soundest critique of his career: "I would have studied more and spoken a great deal less." Wouldn't it be a blessing if Kuhlman, Roberts and Humbard could learn from the mistakes of others...
...adieu to Gstaad, Paris and London and try to make it as a model in New York. But what really turned the trick was the lithe body, green eyes, pale ivory skin and a gaze that seemed to come from some private world too secret to be spoken of. Marisa went on to live a glace confection of a life spun out of Vogue covers, yacht cruises, love affairs with the likes of David de Rothschild and, at the moment, Auto Heir Ricky von Opel. Early in Marisa's career, Vogue Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland announced: "Many faces...
When people first meet Maureen Murphy, they hardly suspect such a soft-spoken woman could be the driving force behind the Radcliffe swim team's climb into the ranks of top notch Harvard varsity sports. But anyone who has watched Murphy in swim practice can sense her energy, strength, and enthusiasm...
Gerald Ford has not communicated with Schlesinger since the Sunday morning when he dismissed him. That silence is significant, more for Ford than Schlesinger, because the world has spoken. Hundreds of letters and telegrams and countless telephone calls have rolled over him. Job offers have piled up−invitations to lecture, to teach, to write. Then last week came a moment of special satisfaction for Schlesinger, who at times had walked a lonely path. The Senate voted to commend him "for his excellence in office, his intellectual honesty and personal integrity, and for his Senate, such language is quite courage...
...people, the young Golda decided; rather, the Jews chose God: "The first people in history to have done something truly revolutionary." From Pinsk the Mabovitches emigrated to Milwaukee. At the Fourth Street School, still standing in the shadow of a brewery, Golda learned English to complement the Yiddish spoken at home and the Hebrew she would later speak with an accent. She yearned to become a schoolteacher, but Labor Zionism exerted a stronger pull. In 1921 she emigrated for the final time to the Yishuv, the Land of Israel...