Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laura was also at odds with her mother. The two admitted they had not spoken to each other for 16 months prior to last November. The daughter claimed that they had quarreled over her mother's refusal to tell the FBI about John Walker's spying and thus break Mark's hold on Christopher. Laura considered going to the FBI alone, but her loyalties were divided. "I was torn between exposing my father and risking (his spending) his entire life in jail," she said. "I do love my father." At the same time, Laura claimed, her mother had warned...
North was terrible in the final round. But by and large the bunkers that he hit with astounding accuracy were the ones nearest the cups. In this way, he clearly outplayed the competition. Tze-Chung Chen, a gentle-spoken Taiwanese capable of shooting 2s on par fives and 8s on par fours, performed both of these wonders and lost the championship by a stroke. So did two others. Had Dave Barr, an ample Canadian, only believed he could have won the Open, he probably would have. South African Denis Watson's eternal miscalculation was % in loitering longer than the allotted...
...came aboard and began discussions with the hijackers. The negotiations evidently paid off. Having released three hostages on arrival, the hijackers then released 58 others. Among them was Dorothy Sullivan of Chicago, who described the tension during the seemingly endless ordeal. One of the original hijackers had been soft-spoken, the other brutal, she said, and the latter liked to go up and down the aisle thumping passengers on the head. Several passengers recalled that Stewardess Uli Derickson, of Newton, N.J., had stood up to the hijackers. Said she, speaking of her passengers: "They're doing what you tell them...
Phyllis McGrady certainly does not act bellicose. As executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America, she seems relaxed, soft-spoken, charming. But there she is, sitting in her Manhattan office, comparing the race among the three network morning shows to a pitched battle worthy of the Iliad. "The competition is ferocious," McGrady says. "It's war games, the combat zone." Several blocks away, Steve Friedman, executive producer of NBC's Today show, seems like ideal fishing-trip company: funny, good-hearted, gregarious. But turn to the subject of Good Morning America and Friedman climbs the ramparts. "They want...
...enough. Throughout the 1981-82 school year, three of his children had been confronted with vocal prayer sessions at their grade schools in Mobile. Jaffree, an agnostic and a lawyer, had objected to the prayers, but got nowhere. Finally he sued, and won rulings that suspended not only spoken prayers but also a state law authorizing a daily moment of silence "for meditation or voluntary prayer." Jaffree's victory on the first issue was not surprising. Spoken prayers, okayed by the Alabama legislature in 1982, were in open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, which has insisted since 1962 that...