Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...
...ideology of Zionism. Some 70 writers and thinkers from all over the world gasped audibly when Ben-Gurion announced: "The difference between Goldmann and me is that he is a Zionist and I am not. There seems to be general agreement that a Jew can live in America, speak and read English and bring up his children in American culture and still call himself a Zionist. If that is Zionism, I want no part...
Where is the exciting, responsible Protestant scholarship in our country? Is it not the American atmosphere which denies the worth of it rather than merely American Catholics? Disrespect for intellectual values belongs, alas, to all Americans, most especially to those bigoted Protestants who, knowing not of what they speak, nevertheless hasten to dash off letters to editors...
...Thirteen Clocks to music for TV (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). Says Director Boris Goldovsky of Tangle-wood's opera department: "Bucci provides something which we have missed with most modern composers. The trouble with them when they write something for voice is that they make their singers speak. This boy makes voices sing...
...police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened? One week later [after the dismissal of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in Russia], these counter-revolutionary creatures recovered their confidence. Disintegration, they thought, was starting in the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making...