Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people whose sayings must be collected as a "valuable resource...for the speaker, writer, and student," as the book jacket says? Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin, just to name...
Icebreakers: During a brief ceremony in the House chambers congratulating the Harvard hockey team this week, House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett)--one of the few Harvard educated lawmakers who did not attend a noontime luncheon for the team--made clear his feelings toward the game Keverian, who is noted as much for his enormous weight as his dry wit, said, "Hockey is a sport I never understood when I was young. We never had rinks. We just had ponds--and for some reason the other kids never let me on them...
WASHINGTON--With his position as the nation's highest elected Democrat in jeopardy, House Speaker Jim Wright mounted an emotional defense yesterday against serious ethics charges and declared he would "fight to the last ounce of conviction and energy that I possess...
...Whether I'm speaker of the house, which is the greatest honor I've ever had, is not important," Wright said. "What is important is that Congress move swiftly--and I'm prepared to move very swiftly--to get distractive matters of this kind behind us so that we can concentrate on the really important things that affect this country of ours...
...name is Mikhail, and I'm an alcoholic," says the next speaker. Sober only a short while, Mikhail, 41, stayed home from work on his last birthday out of fear that his co-workers would insist on celebrating the event with a bottle. "I don't want to talk about my drinking tonight. I just want to thank you for the chance to express myself honestly. Until I came here, I had never done that before...