Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson has long been criticized--to use too gentle a word--for his stands against Israeli policy, and his embracing of the P.L.O. But can one look on the events of the past months in Israel, and not think that a Palestinian homeland is necessary, that our silence no longer serves Israel, and that a president who can bring the Palestinians into the peace process may be just the answer...
...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...
...looks natural. I hate that word...
...conversation with a client, Inman-Ebel picks out target sounds to change: "We identify every single word that labels you as Southern, and you're going to practice them inside out and upside down till you correct them...
John Tinkler sniffs. "Hell," he says, drawing the word out into two syllables ripe with reluctance and dismay. "If someone really and truly believes that his speech is keeping him from getting along in the world, I suppose he must change it. But he isn't paying any attention to how John T. Lupton talks. He's the fellow who sold his Coca-Cola bottling franchise here for a billion and a half...