Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they spoke I realized that, in my excitement over the light and efficiency of the new, I had forgotten the comfort and dusty elegance of the old. Warren House was home to many English department members for a very long time. Despite, or more accurately because of, its creaking stairs and dark hallways, it seemed to fit right into one part of the mythical Harvard academic atmosphere...
Suddenly St. John's wort is hot--especially with the media. Barbara Walters spoke on ABC's 20/20 about the "simple herb that could change the lives of millions of Americans who suffer from depression," and last week the New York Times ran two stories in as many days calling St. John's wort "a gentle remedy" and "a rival to Prozac." Pills and potions containing extracts of hypericum are selling briskly in supermarkets and health-store chains from New York to California. "We are stunned and pleased," says Karl-Heinz Siewert, managing director of Lichtwer Pharma, a Berlin-based...
...crash, though. Still, when the witness got to the crash site, he found photographers taking pictures and people starting to approach the wreck. In the car he could see the three men but not Diana, who had been thrown to the floor behind the front passenger seat. The witness spoke to the only man moving, Rees-Jones. "He had half his face ripped off. He was conscious and looked at me," he says. The witness ran from the tunnel and borrowed a mobile phone to call for help...
During the preparations for Diana's funeral, when the nation demanded strong direction, the mediagenic Blair stepped in. His public footing was sure, indelibly linking the citizenry with the royals in the phrase people's princess. In the days before the funeral, he spoke out in defense of the royal family, calling criticism of it "unfair." He also worked unobtrusively inside the palace to bolster Charles, consulting several times with him to help devise a more populist event. The Blair forces suggested and implemented the loudspeaker system that allowed people on London's streets to hear the service inside Westminster...
...spoke frequently, are also linked by similar attitudes and ambitions. They share a firm sense of duty. Both, according to someone who knows them, share "the same sort of fundamentalist strain." They are deeply religious without necessarily being orthodox. And they have children of a similar age--though the state-educated Blair boys, Euan and Nicholas, thrashed William and Harry at soccer this summer...