Word: oratoric
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As the jockeying for position increased, the decision to debate became even more important. Carter, so eager to accept, professed to find great merit in the willingness of both candidates to gamble everything on one roll of the TV dice. Said he: "I don't think it's...
Once well known as a boy orator, Church still casts a spell in a land where the spoken word is revered. He has struck back at his tormentors by labeling them "scummy and fraudulent" and comparing their technique to Hitler's "Big Lie." The right-wing radicals, Church trumpets...
The early settlers of this land are generally recalled as stern, religious men who worked six days each week and prayed intently on the seventh. While there is some truth to that idea, Cantabrigians have never been boring. One orator remarked on the city's 250th anniversary, "Cambridge of that...
There, in 1891, having made a convert of the formidable feminist orator Annie Besant, who was to carry the Theosophists into the 20th century, she died in some thing like triumph.
When Buckley chaired the Yale debate team 30 years ago, he always won. But in his last round in 1950, the orator lost to Harvard after The Crimson coached the Harvard team by providing it with Crimson files. The subject: academic freedom.