Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adams House Senior Tutor Marshall Hyatt, whowould serve as Edsel's representative before theAd Board, refused to comment on Edsel's casebecause he said he has not spoken to her about it.He added that it is customary for the College'sjudiciary body to review any case where a studentis arrested...
...controversial new film about the incident, Il Caso Moro (The Moro Case), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara and starring popular Actor Gian Maria Volonte, has reopened old wounds. The movie portrays the Red Brigades as well- spoken, well-groomed youths. It asks whether the Christian Democrats did all they could to free Moro and answers with a resounding...
...FEBRUARY 26, 1986, Corazon C. Aquino was sworn in as President of the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos fled the country for exile abroad. It was the final act of a morality play, in which the courageous widow of a martyred Filipino leader, starting without political experience or power, had "spoken truth to power" and mobilized the Philippine people to overthrow an entrenched, autocratic head of state...
...habla espanol -- English only spoken here. When it comes to language, however, Californians showed little tolerance for speaking in foreign tongues. In polyglot California, where Spanish is practically a necessity and Korean is not a rarity, voters passed a measure making English the "official" language. Many saw the vote as a sign of xenophobia. Larry Berg, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, describes the vote as reflecting "no-nothing, nativist resentment toward this massive influx of people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant...
...political organizations have made it clear that it is the rebuilding of a liberated and multiracial South Africa that is their goal, and they are willing to sacrifice for it. It ill behooves us to go on telling them what we think is good for them. They have spoken with clarity and certainty...