Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling & Wan. At the outset, President Eisenhower characteristically asked everyone to speak frankly and freely. They did. The discussion ranged over the timing of school desegregation not only in Arkansas but throughout the South. Faubus explained at length the integration progress already made in Arkansas, at the state university in Fayetteville, in public transit systems, etc. Finally the governor made a significant request: that Little Rock integration be delayed (a mere year's postponement would get Faubus past next July's Democratic primary, when he hopes to win renomination for a third term...
Colonel Sumual was officially invited only as the delegate of "North Celebes," but after the conference opened, he stated his position with blunt and studied nonchalance. Said he pointedly: "I speak for East Indonesia." Chairman Djuanda interrupted. "Have you the consent of other East Indonesian areas [i.e., the Moluccas and Bali]?" "Yes," snapped Sumual, then launched into a vigorous attack against central government corruption...
...British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak correct English...
...millionaire woman, the hostess, who will not now speak to Fast because "she considers me a renegade...
...level of whether one should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...