Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before winding up her whirlwind tour at a black-tie dinner given by Banker David Rockefeller, Thatcher gave an address before 2,000 luncheon guests at the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan. Speaking with a sense of theater that many a politician might envy, she warned of Soviet expansionism, reaffirmed the values of old-fashioned liberal democracy and insisted that "resolve" was perhaps the most important quality needed in a leader as the world heads into the 1980s, which she dubbed the "dangerous decade." Said she: "Let us go down in history as the generation which not only understood what...
...similar outpouring of sympathy across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of Americans sent Christmas cards to a strange address...
...address of the U.S. embassy, which has been in the hands of fanatical followers of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini ever since Nov. 4. No one knows for sure where the idea of sending Christmas messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On one day, postal officials sent about 44,000 pieces of mail to Iran. The next day, the total more than doubled. The messages were simple and from the heart. Scrawled an eight-year-old boy in Portland, Ore.: "We hope you are releesed soon." In Tehran the militants guarding the U.S. embassy accepted...
...lounge at the Town Tennis Club on Manhattan's East Side was carefully arranged for the press conference. A long table held a portable public address system. The candidate's campaign brochures were stacked neatly. It was just one of thousands of such meetings between reporters and presidential candidates this year and next. But this one last week was different. The only reporter present was TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks. His report...
...strictures but was also putting refractions of Baba's teachings into a rock context. Tommy ended by pulling the rug out from under false idols, directing the search for salvation inward and out toward the audience. What Tommy sang to his disciples, freeing them, was also the Who's address to its audience, both thanks and a supplication: "Listening to you, I get the music/Gazing at you, I get the heat/Following you, I climb the mountain/I get excitement at your feet...