Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter George, a Democrat soon to retire from the Senate, stood up behind his desk to speak one day last week, he was set to perform an intricate mission for a Republican Administration−a mission, as he saw it, in the national interest. The Senate was in the mood to go along with the House's deep cut of $1.1 billion in the Administration's $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill. Eloquent Walter George pleaded for the compromise $4.5 billion that his Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved−and that the Administration had agreed to accept...
...home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos and also some grounding in economics...
...city (pop-359,000). All wore work clothes, some carried hammers on their shoulders. On the way to town they persuaded office workers and tram employees to join them. At 11 a.m., now a vast crowd, they gathered in front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then a whisper went through the crowd: the workers' delegation was back...
...clarinetists have managed to make their instruments speak in a style that falls somewhere between the solid fundamentals of swing and the freest flights of progressive jazz. Their methods are similar: play a basic melody in the old style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
Occupational Hazard. In Victoria, B.C., Times Publisher Stuart Keate was fined $15 for speeding on the Island Highway, explained to the court: "Your honor, I was on my way to a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Vancouver Island, where I was to speak in support of a resolution to favor retaining highway speed limits at 50 m.p.h...