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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Western writers speak of relationships, they do not generally mean the contact between anklebones; but perhaps, Baraheni and Doctorow suggest, that is the final relationship in a country where physical power is the only dynamic...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: In the Shadow of the Shah | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

Luscomb regales a visitor with a wealth of anecdotes and political prophesying about people and places far away in space and time yet, as she speaks, it is all vivid. Luscomb recalls the struggles of the early women's movement with compassion and sometimes with humor. There was, for example, a time in the summer of 1909 when Luscomb was stumping for the suffrage and spoke at a small town near Haverell, Mass. It was an evening meeting in a town hall and, after the speaker had finished, a basket filled with yellow "Votes for Women" buttons was passed around...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: So you want a revolution? | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

After four decades of what one Basque described as the "boca cerrada " (closed mouth). Prager did find that many citizens were reluctant to speak with reporters. Suárez too has avoided the press, although he granted Prager an off-the-record interview at Moncloa Palace a few days before the election. Sums up Prager: "Suárez has kept his counsel and his cool. He is plainly aware that Spain has changed and continues to change, that the new look in the society is more than cosmetic, and that the new look in politics will have to follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...Redford's natural ease, he is unable to force it up between the thick lines he has to speak here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep in the Shallow Waters | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...naming Jordan, the University broke with the tradition of keeping silent about potential honorary degree recipients by announcing in May that she will speak to the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni in Tercentenary Theater this afternoon...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Jordan, Six Others Get Honorary Degrees | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

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