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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the meeting, a Red Guard asks for the floor, but the leadership evidently has had enough. Kang snaps: Don't speak any more. We have had enough of words. I declare the meeting closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Who Stole the Locomotive? | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...seven days a week. At night he reads detective stories until late, sometimes rises at 4:30 a.m. to practice. But perhaps this too is part of his secret: he infuses the students with some of his own dedication and perfectionism. He has no outside interests to speak of. He never takes a vacation. His wife says that in the 27 years they have been married, they have gone out to the theater just once-and then Galamian was so bored that he wanted to leave at intermission. The show: Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violinists: Cry Now, Play Later | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Mashed potatoes (whiter than Snow White claims to be) in a rosebud border, green (with envy because they never get top billing) sugar peas plus a fat and sassy mushroom or two, French fried onion rings that speak for themselves, and a chopped green salad for your vitamin quotient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion as "the true fountainhead of America's strength. I have a profound conviction that the whole national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: A Worshiper in the White House | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...live and draw a flow of gold. From a dead father's reservoir of rich es. I retreat further and further back. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." These are the thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seduced and Abandoned | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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