Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. A rousing Hail to the Chief brought on the President himself, and then the full-throated Star-Spangled Banner. After a few other musical offerings (Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Baritone Leonard Warren), the President got up to speak. The music, he quipped, raised one question: "If they can do this under a tent, why the Square...
...East and West Germans had been admitted only as advisers, could speak only if the Big Four agreed...
RUSSIA: The Germans had the right to "participate fully," and there was a "gentleman's agreement" among the Big Four to let the Germans speak up whenever they wished...
...speak with equal authority on both subjects, since agencies that are responsible for the development of atomic weapons (AEC, Department of Defense) have different objectives from groups that are concerned primarily with the control of disease (e.g., the Public Health Service). Nonetheless, the scientists found agreement in several areas: fallout patterns vary in different parts of the world; debris comes to earth more rapidly than was once thought. And some new information was made public...
...identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences. "It was a Roman Catholic who planted the stars and stripes on the parapets at Vicksburg ... It was a Roman Catholic who led the most dashing charge...