Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon and State Department officials ended its investigation of the Stark attack. After meeting with Iraqi officials, Rear Admiral David Rogers, head of the U.S. delegation, said he was "certain we have the information to piece together what happened." He refused to confirm reports, however, that they had not spoken with the pilot who evidently mistook the Stark for an Iranian tanker and blasted the frigate with two Exocet missiles...
...What we have to realize is the cold fact that both Sidey and Osborne are totally against us," Nixon dictated to Aides Bob Haldeman and Ron Ziegler on April 14. "They are not honest reporters. Both have spoken in the most vicious derogatory terms of RN in the place where you really find out what the people think -- the Georgetown cocktail parties . . . From now through the election, neither Sidey nor Osborne is to be included in the news summary regardless of what they write, positive or negative . . . I am now ordering . . . that Osborne and Sidey...
...never get any." That bit of wisdom might also be applied to the life of his creator, Charles Schulz, 64, who notes, "It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was." Last week the soft-spoken artist was inducted into the Cartoonists Hall of Fame for 37 years of his Peanuts comic strip, which is carried in some 2,000 papers in 36 countries. Schulz is characteristically reflective about the enduring popularity of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the gang. "They're nice little...
Holmes a Court, 49, a soft-spoken lawyer who is reputedly Australia's wealthiest citizen, controls worldwide industrial and media properties through his holding company, Bell Group (1986 revenues: $1.5 billion). From that base, he has launched sallies against Broken Hill Proprietary, a huge Australian steel, oil and gas producer, and other big firms. A few months ago he engaged in a bidding war with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch over the Herald and Weekly Times, Australia's largest media group. Last August Holmes a Court disclosed that he was seeking a 15% stake in USX, the steel giant. As takeover...
Across the U.S., social clubs are springing up to soothe singles who are jittery about AIDS. Although those most at risk for the disease remain homosexual men and intravenous drug users, a growing number of heterosexual singles are demanding a clean bill of health in place of spoken assurances that a new acquaintance is not carrying the virus. By requiring all members to take blood-screening tests, dating services are taking some of the risk out of meeting people, if some of the spontaneity...