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Word: oratorical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, Jackson is the most passionate and electrifying orator among this year's presidential candidates, no tough feat indeed. But being is a passionate speaker is not the sole qualification for President. After all, avowed segregationist George Wallace once won the Michigan caucuses by employing a populist "send them a...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: It's Time to Take Jesse Seriously | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

As a law student, Gorbachev received some practical training in oratory. That, plus a natural flair for speaking, has produced a man who is considered the finest orator of any Soviet leader since Lenin (who was also trained as a lawyer). Gorbachev's phraseology is not remarkable, or at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

There was another generation to be heard from. The day before his self- imposed deadline for a decision, Gore went to his parents' apartment on Capitol Hill. Albert Sr., 79, is a white-maned, honey-toned orator and liberal populist who, as a Senator from Tennessee from 1953 until 1971...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Al Gore:Trying to Set Himself Apart | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

SHE called herself the last man in the German Democratic party. A politician, a spectacular orator, a radical and a doctor of economics, she was a major figure in the early 20th-century politics of Prussia, Poland and Czarist Russia. Yet since her murder by German army officials in 1919...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Rosa Revisited | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

Professor Marius, I realize that this Commencement was just one of many that you have been involved in. This was, however, my only Commencement. It did little for me, my parents or my friends to witness the class of 1987 boo and hiss their own orator. Coupled with the mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL: | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

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