Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev told it, the farm troubles about which he had had to "speak quite sharply" three or four years ago, were as good as over. And the predictions his experts had given him, of overtaking the U.S. by 1975, were too pessimistic. Their arithmetic was O.K., but to wait that long would be to "let the ideologists of the capitalist world go on prattling for too long a time. Let the comrade economists blush. Sometimes man must exceed his own strength by making a sudden spurt...
...week in which the Administration was under heavy fire from its own leaders in Congress, it remained for a Democrat to speak up in defense of a key article of Dwight Eisenhower's foreign-policy faith: the touchy matter of extending aid to Communist Poland, which has established its independence from Moscow but is still within the Soviet orbit...
...subject, not to beautify it. "I have a horror of something finished," he says. "Death is final. A revolver shot finishes off. The not completely achieved is life." Beauty, as the world knows it, has long since ceased to interest him. "What is the beautiful?" he exclaims. "One must speak of problems in painting!" Such rumblings give the art world warning that the volcano is still alive, may erupt again before the world's astonished eyes. The most demanding commission of his career is now directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO...
...preached his first sermon at Warsaw's Church of the Holy Cross, where he had been scheduled to speak just before being taken prisoner. "My dear children of God.'" he began. "I am a little late-only a little more than three years. Forgive me; it is the first time that anything like that has happened...
...Theodore P. Ferris '29, rector of the Trinity Church of Boston, will speak at the baccalaureate service June 9 in Memorial Church. He will be assisted by Dr. George A. Buttrick, preacher to the University, and chairman of the Board of Preachers at Harvard University...