Word: address
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coalition with disgruntled Nationalist moderates led by Finance Minister Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, who was thought to be fed up with Verwoerd's rigid extremism. The hopes were short-lived. At week's end Verwoerd and Dönges mounted the platform together to address a political rally in Worcester, Cape province. After both agreed that full apartheid is the only way for South Africa, Dönges said pointedly: "This is my answer to talk about coalition...
...last week Pope John himself, on the occasion of an ad-lib address to some 10,000 pilgrims and tourists, just happened to draw attention to a major doctrinal difference that ranges Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy on one side and Protestantism on the other. Extolling the role of the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholic theology, the Pontiff, while not mentioning Protestants by name, lamented the "many who also hold to the name of Christians who have forgotten the Madonna and left her outside their door...
...itself brought on such differences. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing denounced all Russians as spies, urged Catholics to recite the rosary and pray during Khrushchev's twelve-day visit. The leaders of Congress hastily moved toward adjournment so they could avoid the necessity of asking Khrushchev to address a joint session...
...budget (TIME, Jan. 5 et seq.). Most pundits gave the President hardly a chance to make the decision stick-but he did. During the Berlin crisis, while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles lay dying, it was Dwight Eisenhower who laid down the strong, plain line in a television address to the nation: "We have no intention of forgetting our rights or of deserting a free people. Free men have, before this, died for so-called 'scraps of paper' which represented duty and honor and freedom...
Have Gun, Can Travel. In his inaugural address as president of the American Historical Association, included in An Honest Preface, Webb admits that "I am one of the few persons who did not have to leave home to get a job. I am an example of institutional inbreeding which frightens all universities except the two that practice it most. Harvard and Oxford...