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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice-president Nixon's legislative assistant, Charles K. McWhorter, will speak twice at the University today, sponsored by the HYRC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Aide to Talk On Future of GOP | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Castro went to speak to a meeting of some 2,000 restaurant, hotel, nightclub and casino workers, and promised that gambling would be resumed this week. Afterward, he exploded to a friend: "This nonsense cannot go on. This is the limit. Instead of solving problems, the government is creating them daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro Takes Over | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...somehow it all seems more real than the too-gay sex that Lilo (wife of a French marquis) flaunts like a cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo and I are similar, but she is a little more Folies-Bergére than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: La Diff | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Isak Dinesen, Danish author of fantasy tales, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the Fogg Large Lecture Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinesen to Lecture | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries a mace, as in the Mother of Parliaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Vive I' lndependance! | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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