Word: oratoric
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"The next war, if it comes, will be the greatest disaster that will have befallen the human race up to that moment. I can think of only one greater disaster: the extension of the Kremlin's power over the whole world. Fortunately the measures required to prevent the one...
These participants are: the orator, who delivers a 10-to-15-minute address on a serious topic concerning the class; the Ivy orator, who delivers a humorous address of similar length; the odist, who writes two stanzas to the melody of "Fair Harvard"; the chorister, who sings the first verse...
The Permanent Class Committee's plan calls for selection of the orator and Ivy orator by one joint board, selection of the odist and poet by a second, and selection of the chorister by a third.
The recent decrees devaluating the ruble and reducing prices were signed by Stalin and Malenkov. Last November, on the 32nd anniversary of the October Revolution, Malenkov was orator of the day-an honor accorded to Zhdanov in 1946, to Molotov in 1947 and 1948. On Stalin's 70th birthday...
The orator of the day, Pravda Editor P. N. Pospelov, gloated: