Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles & Co. can work U.S. plans for the meeting into nearly finished form without consulting the President. But the stamp of finality must be put upon the plans by the President himself. And after the advance paper work is done, no one else can speak for the U.S. at Paris with quite the same authority and prestige as the President...
...France, the thought of a U.S. delegation headed by the Vice President aroused active hostility. ("He is not one of us," complained a French official. "He doesn't know France, doesn't speak French, probably doesn't even drink wine."*) Even in NATO capitals where there is growing acceptance of Nixon's ability, it was an article of faith that a summit conference without Ike would lose much of its impact. Said a German Foreign Office spokesman: "You cannot delegate prestige...
...could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
Siegfried Schmutzler did not hesitate to speak out loud and clear against the rites of Youth Dedication to the State with which Communism is trying to drive out the Christian custom of confirmation in the church. For preaching against any work on Sunday that conflicted with the hours of worship Pastor Schmutzler was jailed on charges of "sabotaging the five-year plan...
...small boys ring the bell and bring frogs with broken legs to her door she restores them to health. Comes the day when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina to be chloroformed. She is buried to the skirl of bagpipes, but the vet's brokenhearted daughter won't speak to him. How the witch magically restores Thomasina to life, unveils the heart of gold under the cruel vet's tartan, and marries the man provides a fascinating and horrible example of how not to write about animals...