Word: oakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Last October, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Finance Minister, Alistair Darling, unveiled their emergency intervention to recapitalize U.K. banks, they did so in front of a capacity crowd in the oak-paneled suite of rooms at 10 Downing Street, which are used for the Prime Minister's press briefings. At this morning's sequel performance, when Brown and Darling presented their new emergency plan to try again to get banks lending, journalists were outnumbered by their hosts and attendant staff. In just a few months, the prospect of the government spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money...
...That is like a giant sycamore tree that just died,” he said. “Or maybe even an oak. My campaign is not going to kill trees...
Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut down, wearing a guitar high on her chest, she could envelop Carnegie Hall with her powerful contralto as other vocalists might fill a phone booth. This was not some pruny European monarch but a stout, imperious queen of African-American music. She used that amazing instrument to bear witness to the pain and perseverance of her ancestors. Some folks sing songs. Odetta...
...longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught to a new generation. Klein's comment - "This is who [community organizers] are: they are the people who won this election" - was a balm. Julie Yugend-Green, Oak Park...
...longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught to a new generation. Klein's comment - "This is who [community organizers] are: they are the people who won this election" - was a balm. Julie Yugend-Green, OAK PARK...