Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, squat, and in his sixties, an obvious veteran of baseball history. With blue bermuda shorts and a white T-shirt covering his beer-bloated physique, he looked almost comical. But the man could talk baseball. And talk, and talk, and talk...
...Summer School has hired 20 college students as language counselors to help the foreign students with extracurricular activities or career interests. It is their responsibility to help students find people who they can talk to, in English, about their interests...
...groups that have played before Marley were heavy on the consciousness raising: talk of our brothers in Africa, talk of unity which is beyond race, talk of the end of opression. Marley talked little, sang much. Marley holds his hand to his head when he sings; he occasionally points to the friend or the opressor he sees in his mind. He is conscious of the crowd in an indirect way, his music and not his eyes communicate with them...
...destined, if successful, to recast his whole approach to leadership, the tone and emphasis of his Administration and, finally, American society. If not successful, then the singular twelve days in July might turn out to be a spectacular dramatization of just what is wrong with Carter's presidency -talk without understanding, programs without the means of implementation. When Carter finally came down to the Potomac valley last week, the question of what had happened was still delicately balanced, with as many doubts as assurances...
...SALT hearings got under way last week, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd was briefing his colleagues on the results of his visit to the U.S.S.R. and his surprisingly candid talk with Leonid Brezhnev. The West Virginia Democrat returned with some new ideas about how the Soviets might respond to the questions the Senate has been raising about the arms accord...