Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disagreement concerned Naftali Feder a left wing member of the Labor Alignment who had spoken with a PLO delegate who had approached him in a restaurant in Geneva...
...Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...
Once he gets his manpower on campus, the soft-spoken Chesbro, 35, puts them through a wearing training regimen. Beginning in September, three months before the season opens, wrestlers work out three to four hours a day, concentrating on melting off every ounce of "Sub-Q-Fat"-their abbreviation for subcutaneous fat. That struggle continues through the season as wrestlers work to make their weight division before each match. Frequently they go without food for 18 hours before weigh-in, then stoke up in the five hours between weigh-in and match...
Brutal crime is seldom commonplace but, even so, as Sherlock Holmes might have observed, from the outset the case possessed some curious features. On the afternoon of Jan. 8, a neatly dressed, well-spoken man posing as an insurance agent appeared at the door of Mrs. De-Witt Romaine in Leonia, NJ. Then, brandishing a knife and a gun, the man forced his way inside and tied up the three occupants. Remarkably, his accomplice was a young boy who appeared to be no older than eleven or twelve and whose long, sandy-colored hair gave him a somewhat girlish appearance...
After his return to power, Teng at first seemed unsure of himself. During meetings with foreigners he perched on the edge of his chair (a traditional Chinese sign of subservience), speaking quietly and only when spoken to. In recent months, all that has changed. Visitors have observed Teng lounging casually and sounding off in extremely earthy language. His quip that the U.S. is a "fat man" who is gradually being "carved up by the Soviets" has been repeated all over China...