Word: bespeakes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Mandela may lack the rousing, bred-in-the-pulpit style of black orators like King or Jesse Jackson. His soft-spoken manner and unflappable dignity bespeak his background as a lawyer, a single-minded political organizer and a longtime prisoner still blinking a bit in the spotlight. But Mandela's magnetism is palpable, the consequence of his endurance and determination in the fight against South Africa's white-minority government. He fires the pride of African Americans and touches a deep desire in the psyche of Americans both black and white for a leader who might rekindle the biracial coalition...
...already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature (5 ft. 10 in. in the half heels she favors) and a steady green- eyed gaze -- bespeak a sense of authority and a sociability that enabled her to be mayor of rambunctious San Francisco for nine turbulent years, from 1978 to the end of 1987. "People sometimes misjudge me. I am very much a street person," Feinstein claims. "I know, I don't look like it. And this is where...