Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through Danny's desk drawers in order to find out more about him. Looking at photos of a high school aged Danny posing for pictures before the prom with a girl whose name she didn't know in a house she's never seen with parents she's never spoken to, Debbie bursts out crying. "I don't like not knowing you," she sobs, "I want us to be a couple." But it's soon apparent that the journey backwards from sex to love to commitment necessarily pushes obstacles in the way of coupling...
...Ellis Island, Chief Justice Warren Burger led the new Americans, live and remote, in reciting the Oath of Allegiance. Off-camera, Burger was followed by U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Costantino, the son of parents from Rome and Naples, who exhorted the crowd with a more plain-spoken vision of citizenship: "Take a real good look at each other. What do you see? You see people of all races, all colors, all creeds. What do we do in America when we meet people? We shake hands. C'mon, shake hands! When you've shaken hands, you can say that...
Picking an imitator was not easy, because to this day, no one from the section has ever met Spence. They have spoken to her on the phone during occasional parties, but their knowledge of her personality and appearance is largely restricted to their imaginations...
Clinton said she thought Hufton would decide to come to Harvard. "She's spoken very warmly about the Women's Studies Committee," she added...
Many dancers cite the high number of foreign students at the Summer School when they discuss what makes the program such a beneficial experience. Bull says that he has spoken to "more people in the past two weeks than I have spoken to in my entire life...