Word: speak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was good for the country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...
Hill Southworth, Earl Torgeson, Red Barrott, and Ray Martin will appear with McInnis when they speak before high school diamond coaches at the Boston Braves Baseball Clinic...
After what my husband did for America, I am amazed and deeply hurt that you should publish such an article about an honorable Christian gentleman who can no longer speak for himself...
...Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will one day be a force...
...first, his students understood no English and he could speak not a word of Trukese. For three weeks, teacher and pupils on the onetime Japanese island fortress of Truk groped for a way to talk to each other. Then one day a little girl blurted: "Teacher should not smoke-it does damage in the head." That was the first sign Navy Lieut. William H. O'Brian had that he was getting anywhere with his assignment...