Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe the princess was single-handedly responsible for getting me home to family -- no one will ever convince me otherwise," Tilberis writes in her new book, "No Time to Die." Diana had spoken of her touch as "a white light," she added. It may sound like the ramblings of a religious zealot, but Tilberis's story is being taken to heart by Britain's leading middlebrow newspaper, the Daily Mail. That the source is so well respected is a sign of things to come. The next stage in Diana deification begins when the official government memorial is constructed...
...Friday, Feb. 20, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew to the Iraqi capital aboard a Falcon 900 jet lent to him by French President Jacques Chirac. The deceptively soft-spoken Ghanaian listened for two days as the Iraqis pressed their position. On Sunday, Feb. 22, in the massive Republican Palace on the banks of the Tigris River, he calmly closed a deal with Saddam Hussein. There would be no bombing, at least not now. There was a global sigh of relief...
...puppet. She fell in love," says author and friend Nettie Jones (no relation). Since childhood, Gayl had seemed lost inside her own head. As a student, she sat in class swallowed under layers of clothes, just her face and huge eyes peeking out, speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor...
...disappointed that people left, becausethe people on the panel were really well-spoken,"said Wagner...
...Majesty had no objection to the government's view that ... daughters and sons should be treated in the same way," Lord Williams of Mostyn said in announcing the queen's decision to the House of Lords. To hear those words spoken in the mustiest hall of the British establishment would have given their lordships seizures a while back. But now her majesty is the very model of a modern European monarch -- she pays taxes, invites tourists into her home and dishes out knighthoods to rock stars. Her great-grandfather Edward VII, who would have lost the throne to his sister...