Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anonymous sailors of Stars & Stripes, well-educated men slaving for $75 a week, have a telling phrase for what they do. They speak of their "commitment to the commitment." During the races few words are ever necessary, and those are gently spoken. But in practice runs the banter is uncommonly happy. "What do you think, campers?" says Conner, who never seems to command, only question. "Will anybody be heartbroken if we change this sail? Shall we put up Dolly?" Perhaps a revolutionary and certainly a ! provocative new spinnaker -- featuring rows of billowing bulges -- is on loan from the N.Y.Y.C...
Dukakis has been spoken of as a presidential candidate ever since he won re-election last November by the largest margin in state history. And some in Massachusetts are making it clear they are anxious for their chief executive to become president...
Captain James Cook claimed that world for England in 1770. He found it inhospitable and sparsely populated by an aboriginal race, whose first recorded words spoken to the English were "Go away!" Newly arrived whites, after 252 days at sea, found a "land of inversions where it was high summer in January ((and)) trees kept their leaves but shed their bark." The island's first lieutenant governor bitterly concluded, "I do not scruple to pronounce that in the whole world there is not a worse country...
...invasion of Chad by Libya." Much of the credit for Chad's recent achievements goes to Habre, a French-trained lawyer who has managed to create a sense of unity in a country that has never known the meaning of the word. Buoyed by these successes, the soft-spoken Habre sounded unusually confident last week when he told his countrymen, "Our objective is to preserve our territorial integrity, and our success is only a matter of time...
...certainly is not now. He sometimes seems to be dancing a curious line between fabulous profits and grim losses. What he was and continues to be is the world's biggest spender, a man whose unrivaled profligacy gilds his self-image as a grand merchant-statesman. This soft-spoken man with a gift for putting people at ease, the product of a strict Islamic upbringing from one of the world's most conservative and ascetic nations, has become an international symbol of sybaritic self-indulgence. "I am an artist with my wealth," he says in quiet measured tones while relaxing...