Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant later Mrs. duMont blanched, tried to speak but could not. Her lips turned blue. Minutes later she was dead. A few doors away, at almost the same time, Gordon M. McMullin, 53, died in the same way. Quick autopsies showed that both patients had been dosed with sodium nitrite, a powerful poison used as a hospital cleansing agent, instead of sodium phosphate, a mild cathartic. Shocked hospital authorities refused to explain the matter until they had made an investigation, but the district attorney's office, opening a full-scale inquiry, indicated that an employee of the hospital pharmacy...
...valuable exportable U.S. commodity. To sweeten its sometimes pungent flavor, the Voice decided to introduce the jazz with an hour of good pop music. To find an announcer the Voice held auditions, selected Buffalo-born Disk Jockey Conover, 35. His qualifications: a pleasantly resonant voice, the ability to speak slowly enough to be understood by foreigners with a little English, and an intimate knowledge of jazz; he owns a phenomenal 40,000 records, and draws from his collections for the Voice show. In most parts of the world, jazz is a kind of Esperanto to the young generation from...
...people about harmless dirt on feet, when you could be broadcasting us how to make money and other usefuls?" One African announcer refused to read a lecture on female hygiene. "You may think this does good, bwana," he told the white station director, "but we do not speak of these things in our society. The people would tear me to pieces if I speak of their women in this way." The lecture was dropped...
...doing a monthly roundup on the hard facts of desegregation developments in his state. "We don't want any adjectives or adverbs," says Executive Director Don Shoemaker. 43, who has held editing jobs on Southern newspapers since 1934. A major reporting problem is to get school officials to speak for attribution; the subject is often just too hot. It is just as hard to get frank views from ordinary citizens in any attempt to sound out public opinion. As desegregation advances, a more novel problem is to get hold of statistics on the school population. In St. Louis...
...Himmler was German, and that Hitler was an enemy of Christians as much as of Jews. From the time Hitler took power in 1933 he held German honor in prison, and it is a sort of miracle that honor's voice was ever heard, and that it should speak, not as might be expected, in hatred and hysteria, but in the grave tones of Christian charity...