Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This should get you through dinner. Now for the football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above all, don't suggest any plays, even if you played quarterback at school. The Kennedys have the signal-calling department sewed up, and all of them have A-pluses...
...poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking enthusiastically to someone else (Honey Fitz, a true artist, could pump one hand, speak to a second person, and gaze fondly at still another...
Czech Red leaders speak more of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution than of the man of the moment in the Kremlin. They have not yet fully recognized the Soviet Party Congress or rehabilitated one victim of Stalinism. Party newspapers shy away from Moscow's struggles. They are always ready to jump either...
...only replied yes, but answered so positively that he may be suspected by some Southerners of being a cryptocarpetbagger. His prophecy: "Eventually you'll have an amalgamation of the two races in the South. Nature itself knows no distinctions between human beings, no matter what language they speak or what color their skin is. The racial conflicts in the South will eventually and quietly be dissolved by nature-by the forces of procreation...
...London, a mother told Probation Officer Cyril Burton that her 15-year-old son, who tells his parents when to go to bed, locks up the house at night, orders his meals served in a separate room, opens his father's mail and tells his mother not to speak to him unless spoken to, played hooky from school only because...