Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find the train practical, convenient and the best sleeping in the world. Unfortunately, I am afraid those ICC hearings are like the one I attended here. It was more a showcase for Southern's attorneys than a chance for the people who really ride the train to speak up and have their opinions heard...
Carter emphasizes U.S. strength-and offers an olive branch Moscow was angry, and the transatlantic rhetoric was rising to "chilly war" level. White House aides had privately suggested that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had lied to the President. Washington's allies were wondering just who was speaking for the Administration. Was it National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who seemed willing to match the Soviets decibel for decibel? Or was it softer-spoken Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, ever the conciliator? Unmistakably, it was time for Carter himself to speak up and clear...
Israeli officials frequently speak of the settlers as living in peace with their Palestinian neighbors. In fact, these pioneers have relatively little contact with Arab villages near by. Palestinian farmers do come to some settlements to barter fruits and vegetables, but closer contacts are shunned by both sides. When one Arab approached residents at Karnei Shomron, near the 1967 border, and asked if he could send his child to the community's day care center, they said no, on the ground that it would set a dangerous precedent...
...first time, in Montreux, Switzerland. A meeting that had been scheduled for April fell apart when the Carter Administration declared its support for lifting the arms embargo against Turkey. While the chasm between Ecevit and Caramanlis remains wide, it is heartening that they are once again willing to speak across...
Cushing of Boston talks with the senior Brady about a dispensation so that his son can marry a Protestant. "I listen for the voice of God," says Cushing at one point, "but to tell you the truth, he don't speak my language. What I listen to mainly is pain." Warm words from a people's pastor, but did Cushing ever say anything like that? Did he, as the book also suggests, drown his painful illnesses in alcohol...