Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...
...more than two games in a row all season, got the coach's message, streaked to five big wins, the mesmerized Rangers collapsed. In the N.H.L.'s tensest finale in years, the Leafs were trailing Detroit 2-0 when they heard over the public-address system that the Rangers had lost their final game in New York; they roared back to take the game, and with it the Rangers' play-off berth. In their cup semifinal against Boston, the Leafs spotted the Bruins a two-game lead, came back to win four games to three. Boston...
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will address an expected crowd of 6,000 from Dillon Field House Balcony on Saturday, April 25. Fear for Castro's safety caused the Law School Forum, sponsor of the speech, to decide against using Harvard Stadium...
...Forum fears, however, that in the stadium "the speech may turn into a giant carnival," Samuels remarked. Use of this site also poses certain technical difficulties, since night lighting, a public address system and facilities for televising would be required. In addition, the Forum is worried about the weather on the night of the speech...
...Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...