Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about time he howled," he says. "But we're not radicals just because we're tired of being sold out and passed by." Above all, Miller's voice rings with a keen and painfully won knowledge of the workingman. This knowledge, along with a plain-spoken but tough style, made the tireless Miller a formidable negotiator. As he remarked, after one sharp exchange in the last days of the bargaining: "I know. I was there in the mines. I know what it's like...
Even if no one could be sure whether the people had spoken or merely cleared their throats, the expanded Democratic majorities in the House and Senate forced on the party the challenge ?and the burden?of coming up with answers to inflation, recession and the nation's manifold other problems. Clearly, if Democrats fail to act decisively over the next two years, they could in turn become the victims of voter rebellion and dissatisfaction with the way they are being governed. Declared Minnesota Senator Walter F. Mondale, a possible candidate for President in 1976: "The heat...
...group's proposal does that, they have exceeded the instructions I gave them," Bok said, adding he had not spoken to any members of the Harvard group since the conference began...
...association convenes at night in MIT's student center, and only Greek is spoken. If the meetings of most radical American groups revolve around speeches from individuals on oppression and abuses that usually do not directly involve the members, there is a nationalistic sense pervading a meeting of the Hellenic students of a heritage of modern-day persecution to which every member is a party. Although 3000 miles from the homeland, for them, they say, the threat is real...
...tense goal-to-goal situations, Plunkett is poised and powerful. Sitting in his modest Chestnut Hill apartment, he's ill-at-ease and soft-spoken. He'll crack a smile about as often as he'll fumble a football--hardly ever...