Word: writes
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...example, Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...
...press, love to see the phrase "Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government" in print. Some say that when people at the Kennedy School are bored, they count the number of references to the school inserted into the Congressional Record. But if someone wants to write about the school's links to Dukakis, they try to downplay the whole thing...
...William Garman, 51, contracted Lou Gehrig's disease in 1982 and within two years was paralyzed, unable to speak or write. Then, last summer, a group of Westinghouse engineers outfitted Garman with an infrared sensor that moves a computer screen's cursor in response to his blinking. For the first time since his illness struck, Garman has been able to communicate with family and friends. His first words, painstakingly spelled out one letter at a time...
...sticker campaign" against Thompson in the November general election, when he--for lack of a Republican opponent--will be the only one on the ballot for the 28th Middlesex District House seat. Graham plans to ask supporters to put stickers bearing her name and address on the write-in blanks inside their computer ballots' paper envelopes...
Johnson said the sticker effort for Bolling--who ran such a campaign because he failed to turn in his nomination papers on time--faced several problems: different parts of the district used several different kinds of ballots with different procedures for write-in voting; some voting machines had write-in slots too high for handicapped or elderly voters to reach; and, as in Graham's district, the turnout set record lows at around 15 percent...