Word: talker
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...Globe also realized the need for an alumni leader. It added; "Besides being a facile talker before Harvard Clubs (he must command) the confidence of the men who have the money. A well-spoken speech may not only ten where a word in the right ear will not a hundred thousand and dollars of a new gymnasium...
...Oxford house where (his sons off on their own) he now lives alone. With all his ailments, Gary is tough and wiry, and likes to take long walks every day. During a lengthy conversation he is as apt as not to chin himself on a door. As a talker, he is occasionally overwhelming. His mind is crowded with stored-up memories, like the attic of an old house; there is no telling what will turn up. Says Humorist A. P. Herbert: "He rather terrifies me. There is nothing he is not prepared to discuss. He even talks at breakfast." Almost...
...Talker. General Electric began sales of a new mobile radio-telephone for two-way talk between a supervisor's office and factory vehicles such as lift trucks. G.E. says that vehicles equipped with the new radio-telephone have proved 20% more efficient in big factories and warehouses. Cost for central transmitting point and one mobile unit: $1,000; additional units $450 each...
...lives in a modest suburban house with his wife and three young sons, earns $4,000 a year, smokes cheap Toscani tobacco and drives a tiny German Opel on which he still owes three or four payments. Quiet and self-effacing, a better listener than he is a talker, he exudes an old-fashioned courtesy that echoes the prose of the Koran. How did this mild-mannered man lead a revolution in a land where corruption, disease, glaring wealth and bitter poverty are as old and as familiar as the Pyramids...
...time of his arrest, a Law School classmate called Feinberg "The sort of guy who likes to talk big about his illegal deals and boasts of his underworld friends. I considered him just a talker." Friends said that Feinberg had talked knowingly of the series of basketball scandals, and hinted he knew more than the police...