Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor Algerian independence, but the question deserves more than a one-minute debate before being overwhelmingly backed. Resolutions were passed on mass emotion, passed as quickly as possible to get them out of the way, passed with our two representatives (in over 1000) not having an opportunity to speak. Everyone, official delegate or not, had a voice; it was impossible to be heard over the hundreds of "extras...
...green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
Linus C. Pauling will speak to the Harvard Liberal Union Friday in Emerson D at 2:30 p.m. on the implications of a nuclear...
...Paul, with that characteristic gesture of the hand, began his defense . . . While he was thus defending himself Festus burst out, "You are raving, Paul! All your learning has driven you mad!" But Paul replied, "I am not mad, your excellency, I speak nothing but the sober truth. The king knows of these matters, and I can speak freely before him. I cannot believe that any of these matters has escaped his notice, for it has been no hole-and-corner business . . ." "Much more of this, Paul," returned Agrippa, "and you will be making me a Christian!" "Ah," replied Paul, "whether...
There is, to begin with, the American ambassador to a Southeast Asian nation called Sarkhan. Louis ("Lucky Lou") Sears is a political hack who does not speak Sarkhanese ("Fifty percent of the entire Foreign Service officer corps do not have a speaking knowledge of any foreign language"). He loathes the people, the place, the climate. By contrast, the Soviet ambassador is a carefully trained career diplomat who reads and writes Sarkhanese, has studied Buddhism. To show his appreciation of the Sarkhanese ideal of slimness, he diets away 40 Ibs.; to indicate his enthusiasm for Sarkhanese music, he becomes "a fairly...