Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HANDS OF THE SIGN INTERPRETER were somehow more captivating than the actual words spoken by the women on the steps of Mem Church. Almost everyone there was familiar with the statistics being reeled off on rape and sexual harassment, but the signer gracefully translated them into emphatic motions. Her hands, with their eloquent, forceful silence, reminded me of why I had come...
That was before Joe Greene arrived three years ago to take over as principal. Greene, a soft-spoken Mississippian with 18 years in the Detroit school system, four of them as principal of another problem high school, had a nickname -- "Mean Joe Greene," after the Hall of Fame pro-football star. He showed right away that he was prepared to live up to it. Among the stiff rules he began enforcing: three unexcused absences would mean suspension, each subsequent truancy would mean another suspension, and after three suspensions, a student would be transferred out of Redford. "I've heard...
Thank ya'll very much," says Jim to thunderous applause. "Nahh ya'll know that God hath spoken, and what he spaketh he meanteth, so nahh its tahhm! I say its tahhm nah--raht nahh--ta give up all yer money. Leave it with Tammeh on yer way out. Thank ya'll an don't worry none about that there money. The Laud giveth and the Laud taketh away, and then He giveth raht back ta me. Such is the way of the Laud. Thank ya'll for commin...
...haven in Freeport. (By the way, Mom, how's the weather back home?) "Let's have dinner," said Remar when we spoke on the phone. "But how about a bike ride first?" I blanched but dutifully headed over to his modest three- bedroom house. Initial impression: Georgia gentleman, soft-spoken, slight drawl, impeccable manners -- he lowered the bike seat for me. Yes, yes, about the body. Well, I have to say I was impressed. In his "before" pictures he resembled a bloated puffer fish. At 6 ft. 1 in., he tipped the scale...
...theory of date rape is that men and women tend to misread each other's signals, particularly a soft-spoken no that many males assume means yes or at least maybe. Says one student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.: "There are different kinds of nos. 'Noooo . . .' is one thing. 'NO, get your filthy hands off me!' is another." Some feminists argue that the U.S. has a "rape culture" in which males are encouraged to treat women aggressively and women are trained to submit. Some surveys back up that dark ideological view of male sexual behavior. In Koss's study...