Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educational issues especially, Harvard has demonstrated keener awareness of its enormous social responsibilities President Bok's instincts that universities should stick to pontificating about educational issues are essentially right, and Harvard has spoken up on affirmative action in admissions: secrecy in research technology transfer, and financial aid In the area of financial aid, in particular. Harvard does not get enough credit for its extensive lobbying efforts to head off the worst of Reagan's budget cuts in 1981, cuts that would have harmed not Harvard students by and large, but lower and middle class students at other universities and colleges...
...under 40 and would be delighted to settle for tender words and warm caresses. The rest of it is a bore. I am sure sex was designed for the pleasure of males." From Washington came the outburst: "Yes, yes, a million times yes! I would love to be spoken to tenderly. My boyfriend never says a word. If I say anything he says, 'Be quiet. You're spoiling things...
...Soviet Union. Her loathing for the regime was undiminished. In 1984, she published in India a sharply anti-Soviet volume of memoirs titled The Faraway Music. "Svetlana's hatred for Soviet Russia was in her bones," says a Russian emigre who knew her well. "If she heard Russian spoken by someone who had been brought up in the U.S.S.R., she would become enraged." Svetlana said on the BBC, "Only when I came to America and heard all the emigres, then I heard real, good, beautiful Russian." She was adamant that Olga should never learn a word of the language...
Those words were spoken by a luckless grower in The River, one of a recent spate of Hollywood movies about hard times on the farm. But while those down- home films, which also include Country and Places in the Heart, are fiction, the dramas they depict are painfully true to life. Mired in perhaps the deepest farm slump since the Great Depression, American families are being driven from their land in growing numbers at a time when much of the rest of the U.S. is enjoying prosperity. Some 20,000 farms have been auctioned off since 1981, and the toll...
...four years since, Reagan has learned not only the correct pronunciation but also that he and the ambitious, blunt-spoken Regan have more in common than rhyming first names and frequently confused last ones. Both believe that almost any economic problem can be solved by unfettering the forces of the marketplace, and both view with skepticism the advice of professional economists, even conservative ones. The two men also have an innate optimism about the underlying strength of the American system. These shared beliefs helped make Regan, an outsider in a clique of Californians and a political novice to boot...