Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have got a deal if he really wanted one. According to a source close to him, Lott began telling lobbyists last year that they had better get Clinton on board if they wanted a deal. "We're not gonna walk the plank alone," Lott told them. The two men spoke over the phone on occasion, but most of Lott's contact was with chief of staff Erskine Bowles--someone Lott "likes and trusts." The President remained disengaged, which surprised Lott as he watched Clinton's window of opportunity closing fast...
...SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
...crank-addicted mother, the girl had been raped repeatedly by a teenage relative, a sadistic sort given to dousing his hands in fingernail-polish remover, setting them aflame and then blowing out the fire before he was burned. He warned the girl that he would ignite her if she spoke out. Morales tells of another girl, 11, whose meth-crazed mother prostituted her for a onetime windfall of $360. The girl thought this was normal life, Morales says. Mom needed the money...
...other Commencement speaker, Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and 1996 Time Magazine Man of the Year, also spoke to the crowds gathered in Killian Court about the importance of technology in American life...
...spoke for about twenty minutes in measured, halting English...