Word: spokenness
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...Such concerns come at a critical time for Abdullah, who became Prime Minister two years ago, taking over when his long-serving predecessor Mahathir Mohamad retired. The two men could not be more different. The soft-spoken, affable Abdullah is noted for his non-confrontational, consensus-seeking style, while Mahathir was more blunt and autocratic. When general elections were held a year ago, Abdullah campaigned on a platform of change, promising to root out corruption and to introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly...
...before reading the Isis punch book, I assumed that the superfluous add-ons “like” and “totally” were confined to spoken English. How wrong I was...One member vents, “She also totally asked me to get breakfast with her at 7:30 am on a Friday. I don’t know—just like, why would you ask anyone that...
...that they are not complicit in omertà, the mob code of protective silence. But most are scared that the government cannot protect them if they talk. Lingering in front of the cathedral after Fortugno's funeral, Giuseppe Macri, 50, says he was skeptical that all the strong words spoken from the pulpit would be followed by action. "Calabria is the most neglected region in Italy," he says. "There's always someone else's emergency that comes before ours. We Calabrians have lost faith. We know next week, all the attention will be gone." Macri's only son will...
Crack, flop, hit, nuts, pot-committed. Limp, leak, house, draw, gun-shot straight. It’s not spoken word and far from Dr. Seuss; say hello to the parlance of poker. No longer resigned to the backrooms of Western saloons (very smoky, very Maverick, always black and white) or Friday nights with the boys (beer, bets, and babe talk), it seems everyone is speaking the colloquialism of cards...
...outro on “Basket Case” features Doom’s plaintive spoken defense of his attire: “just because some people wear a mask, doesn’t mean that they did nothing automatically...