Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad Pact. The 21-year-old King opened Parliament, in a speech from the throne that Nuri had written for him, by declaring martial law in all Iraq, and incidentally, in usual Arab fashion, called for the "elimination of Israel." When no fewer than 40 Deputies clamored to speak, to debate Iraq's foreign policy, the government swiftly and summarily suspended Parliament for a month...
...Zeran works, and another, the new secret police boss, had put a discreet cordon of tanks around the parliament house and changed the guard at Radio Warsaw. After listening patiently to Khrushchev's harangue, Gomulka said quietly: "Now it is my turn. I don't want to speak here, but in a radio studio. Tonight I am going to tell the people the truth-what you're demanding and what we're refusing." Khrushchev climbed down, agreed to talk over pressing economic questions later in Moscow...
...Free to speak frankly over Congress' perennial failure to cough up adequate funds for Foreign Service personnel, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce told a Manhattan audience that such legislative parsimony is "folly to the point of national suicide." Said Mrs. Luce: "When you think of the billions that we have spent abroad to prevent our own atomic annihilation, it seems folly to deny a comparatively small sum to the very service which is working hardest to prevent...
...Harvard bend. Motorized police barred off Cambridge streets and thousands of uniformed figures appeared in the Yard. Ever smiling, ever cigar-smoking Winston Churchill was to receive a Doctor of Laws degree in a traditional ceremony at Sanders Theatre. Those who saw and heard the British Prime Minister speak cheered wildly for the man regarded as the greatest figure of the times. After he left in the afternoon both gunboats and police slipped quietly away...
...eloquent as Ben Shahn has been in the fall Norton lectures, his pictures speak with a bolder and more significant voice. The Fogg Museum has done well to complement the artist's stay here with an excellent exhibition of his work...