Word: speakes
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...pleaded with the Baron, but he sat there bored, petting his favorite wolfhound. After a few minutes, he waved them away. Just as they were leaving, a rabbi who had noticed how fond the Baron was of his wolfhound, said: "You know, we're very talented at making dogs speak." Intrigued, the Baron allowed the Jews to stay on for a year, to teach his dog how to talk. Outside the Baron's castle, the Jews wailed: "Rabbi, how can you make such a promise? We're doomed!" The Rabbi replied with a shrug, "Anything can happen in a year...
...best was still to come. The sight, smell and sound of dumplings happily sizzling in one stall drew us in and a bit of pointing (neither of us speak Chinese) landed us with eight of the best dumplings either of us had ever tasted...
...Monday's 5-to-4 ruling is the latest to limit the right of students to speak freely since the Court proclaimed in 1969 that they do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate." The court says schools may punish "student speech celebrating drug use" without violating the Constitution, just as they can prohibit "lewd or vulgar" language or speech "sponsored" by the school in, for example, a student newspaper, two First Amendment exceptions that the justices created with rulings in the late 1980s...
...website. "What happened was, cancer of the salivary gland spread to my right lower jaw. A segment of the mandible was removed. Two operations to replace the missing segment were unsuccessful, both leading to unanticipated bleeding. A tracheostomy was necessary so, for the time being, I cannot speak. I make do with written notes and a lot of hand waving and eye-rolling. The doctors now plan an approach that does not involve the risk of unplanned bleeding. If all goes well, my speech will be restored. So when I turn up in Urbana, I will be wearing a gauze...
After putting off a trip to Jamaica for a week so that he could give the lecture, Trivers said, he arrived in Cambridge on the day of the event and was told by Nowak only hours before he was due to speak that the date had been cancelled. A party, scheduled by PED to honor Trivers for his recent receipt of a prestigious scientific award, was also cancelled...