Word: oratorically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Maoist from Manila? A leftist from rebel-torn Luzon? No, the angry orator was Maria Imelda (Imee) Marcos, 22, elder daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Imee's outbursts coincided conveniently with her father's efforts to renegotiate the terms of American compensation to the Philippines for...
Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl.
DIED. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 83, Prime Minister of Australia for an unprecedented 16-year span (1949-66), who founded the Liberal Party and took a firm stand against the "downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had...
This Monday is the birthday of another great orator who was also a lumberjack and, like Lincoln, happened to be president of the United States. It may seem strange at first that presidents are first class speakers but, on second thought, they do talk an awful lot. What's odd...
George "I never tell a lie" Washington is most renowned as an orator for his Farewell Address, in which he warned against "permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."