Word: spokenness
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...primary May 6. "If Bill Clinton had said this thing about some white people being bitter and using guns, it would have been fine, since he grew up a poor white guy. But the Obama stereotype is a wealthy Ivy League elitist. He's a little too well-spoken; his suits are a little too expensive. From him, the comment comes off as condescending...
...forceful opinion. Soon after the bombs fell on Baghdad, the topic came up in April 2003 as Ratzinger talked with fellow Cardinals Carlo Maria Martini of Italy and Paul Poupard of France at an intimate Vatican diplomatic reception. A Church official present that evening remembers the typically soft-spoken German shaking his fists, and blurting out in Italian: "Basta! Basta!" Enough! Enough...
...anyone intimidated by the world of comics jargon and history.“Whether you’re six or 60, you should be able to come in here and find something you like,” says Tony F. Davis ’84, the soft-spoken owner of Picnic.Apparently, people have found things they’ve liked—the store has been around since 1974, making it one of the oldest comics shops in the country.The store is small, but every wall and crevice has a different kind of literature that you could call...
...forged connections. Thrown together briefly during the period of Kaushik’s childhood spent in Cambridge, when the two fortuitously meet in the middle of their lives in Rome among “an international crowd of journalists and photographers and academics, always three or four languages spoken at the table,” it’s evident that following the nomadic lifestyle choices of his parents, Kaushik has come to define himself as a man without a state, a globe-traversing war crimes photojournalist.Though the Etruscan scholar Hema knows that in two weeks she is to return...
...McCain has long argued that the Bush Administration overstepped its legal authority by approving techniques like waterboarding, and has successfully championed two efforts to try to limit the White House to the plain language of international treaties, which ban cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. McCain has also spoken in opposition to other techniques in the CIA arsenal like sleep deprivation and the use of stress positions, both of which were employed by the North Vietnamese during McCain's captivity as a prisoner of war and may still be employed...