Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon: I think it is fine to have freedom of speech, and I hope that you will always have the right to speak your opinion...
...boasted, "we will be on the same level as America." Russians standing near by broke into applause as he added that the Soviet achievement was worth bragging about. Nixon, getting into the Khrushchev spirit, replied that there should be "far more communication and exchange in this area that we speak of. We should hear you more on our television, and you should hear us more on yours." He added that Khrushchev "should not be afraid of ideas...
...worried. Khrushchev had come to praise the faithful Gomulka. Determined to cover the last gullies in the 1956 breach between Warsaw and Moscow, he was even willing to swallow Poland's independent, inch-slow progress along the road to agricultural socialism. "My conscience does not allow me to speak untruths and praise private farms," said Khrushchev. "The cooperative is the best form of organization of peasants' labor, the best form of organization of production. But one must not drive a man to a better life with a whip or, as the saying goes, drive someone into paradise with...
...favorite British myth that dies hard is that two Englishmen stranded on a desert island would not speak until properly introduced. Many an American tourist has found the silence in a British railway carriage oppressive. But last week, with an air of discovery, the Manchester Guardian reported the existence in England of something called the Conversing Travelers' Association. The Guardian triumphantly uncovered "what appear to be two facts about the association: it was formed at Letchworth in 1950, and it now has about 1,000 members indulging, as a matter of principle, in 'topical conversation with strangers...
...been back to Beirut since he left at eight, doggedly set out to find his father's old house in the almost totally rebuilt Ras Beirut section, finally knocked at the right door, was greeted by a joyous cousin who reported later: "I couldn't speak, and I couldn't feel anything except the hairs rising on my arms...