Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-nights-per-week volunteer organization recruits by word of mouth, with students signing up for an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift about once every two weeks. SafeStreets' current roster of volunteers now stands at about...
...dogfights between the company and its suitors. The maneuvering began on March 28, when NWA announced that another investment group had amassed a 4.9% stake in the company and might make a takeover bid. NWA promptly rejected the overture. While the unidentified group has not been heard from since, word of its interest apparently helped draw Davis into the contest. His bid pushed NWA's stock price from 68 1/4 in late March to 88 3/4 at the end of last week...
...state's name comes from an Aleutian word that means "great land." And no one who has ever seen Alaska's panoramic peaks, its rushing rivers and teeming wildlife would argue with that description. Alaska is great in beauty, in majesty and in sheer size. If laid atop the lower 48 states, it would stretch from Florida to California. The territory that was once called Seward's Folly is rich almost beyond comprehension in oil, coal, timber and fish. Alaska is truly America's last frontier, a place of wonder that is virtually unspoiled and a priceless treasure that...
There they were, shoulder to shoulder, about as disparate as a pair could be. The business-suited pragmatist and the fatigue-clad revolutionary. Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. New thinking and old orthodoxy. Castro talked the most, but Gorbachev had the last word. He coolly rejected Castro's policy of exporting revolution, a central tenet of the Cuban leader's 30-year rule. Until a very few years ago, Moscow's leaders too preached worldwide support for wars of national liberation. But Gorbachev's words in Havana seemed intended to reinforce his professed determination to replace such vaporous ideology with...
Even better is Brun's turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...