Word: speakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...familiar rehash. (Is it partly because N.A.S.S.P. officials promise to send the proposals to the White House for the attention of Jimmy Carter?) Lacking as yet a special style of their own, the kids lapse into officialese, the language in which adults in the bureaucracies back home so often speak to them...
...independent state, there is no peace, no stability, no security, no settlement. My condition for peace is a just condition. I'm asking that my people, the Palestinian people, have the opportunity to live in peace in their independent state as human beings. Your President used to speak a lot about human rights, but where are his human rights when he approaches Palestinian rights? He completely forgets these rights in this moment. He is only looking through Israeli glasses and from Israeli angles. I am sorry to say that presidency votes are also his angle...
...health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...
...seemed relieved that the official increase was "only" 9%. When that news reached Wall Street, stocks surged in their best one-day rally in five months. In Washington, the State Department called the rise "untimely and unjustified," and let it go at that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn the U.S. for acting as midwife to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
...WEEKS ago a well-known writer requested to speak with student writers about the problems of writing. I signed up and entered the room where the meeting was held in a mood of excited expectation that the meeting with someone whose work you admire inspires. She arrived a half-hour late, coming from a dinner held in her honor and accompanied by a woman described as a dear friend whose wrist the elderly writer clasped throughout the evening, as if for strength. An adulatory hush came over the room as she began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive...