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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Old Guard snorted that the liberals, for all their headline making, had gained nothing that they could not have got in a quiet, back-room talk. The liberals retorted that all they really wanted-besides Kuchel's victory -was headline recognition that they, too, speak for the Republican Party. And Styles Bridges disappeared back behind the scenes, pleased that he had prevented a bitter split yet protected his own brand of pre-Eisenhower Republicanism in its last important redoubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Style of Bridges | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into the city to find work. Finally, one day last week, 4,000 blacks jammed into the courtyard of a Y.M.C.A. to hear Kasavubu speak at an unauthorized protest meeting. When the police arrived, the riots began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: If Blood Must Run | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...have foreign campuses-and Stanford is well pleased with the project. Because classes in such subjects as political science, art history and philosophy are conducted by Stanford professors in English, admission to Landgut Burg is not restricted to language majors and the few other students able to speak German-usually a limitation of the year-abroad programs run by other U.S. institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning & Lederhosen | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...incorruptible self of Cabiria gleams out from her bought and sold body just as her eyes peer vivacious and warm through the painted expression of her face. Her eyes speak childish mischief to a man, even though he infers it to be winking lewdness...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Nights of Cabiria | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...never stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Powerhouse | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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