Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your friend if I did not speak frankly...
...every tourist knows, London's horse guards take the vow of silence on duty. As they sit majestically astride their mounts in Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
...reach the nation's capital in Karachi, a, citizen from East Pakistan must fly 1,000 miles across Indian territory-the distance from Massachusetts to Missouri-or travel 3,000 miles by sea. All that unites the two widely separated provinces is the Moslem religion. They even speak different languages: in the East, Bengali; in the West, Urdu. East Pakistan is mostly swamps and rivers; West Pakistan, deserts and mountains. The East is almost drowned in water; the West parched for lack...
...warm lyricism and underscored with lushly singing strings. A painstaking workman who admired clarity ("The black scores," he said, "are the easiest to fake"), he left as his legacy only eleven operas. But 34 years after his death, the world of opera has not found a composer who can speak to the universal audience Puccini commands...
...Northcote Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya and author of the satiric Parkinson's Law, will speak this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Burr B (not in Lamont Forum Room as previously announced). His topic: "Parkinson...