Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows why the kitchen sink should be built higher and slope down; he has washed up dishes at it hundreds of times. He knows about rations; he has cooked them. He can make a bed quicker than most people. Ladies: send Norman to Parliament. He will speak up for you there. Signed: Mrs. Norman Tiptaft...
This evening I called the people of this little town together to elect a new mayor. . . . Since I speak German fluently, I opened the meeting, and . . . Herr , owner of the local inn, took over and read a previously made-up list of names for the posts of mayor, assistant mayor, town clerk, treasurer, and town crier. He asked anybody who had any objections to raise his hand...
...council, again tossing out this one because he had not been quite reliable in the Third Reich, that one for his failure to be openly against the Nazis. Not one man elected had ever belonged to the party. It was easy to see that many present did not dare speak their minds-it had been too long since they last could. Others were unable to grasp this new thing, free speech. But it was as fine a start and as encouraging a seed of a decent new Reich as I could have wished...
...walked to the microphone he grinned, and the applause went up again. But he looked pale and nervous in the glare of the floodlights; when he began to speak his voice almost failed. He had worked on the speech for days, had reworked it the night before in his suite at the Dorchester, and had committed it to memory like a high-school valedictorian. For a few minutes he sounded like one. But as he went on, he got better, and the crowd began to realize that Ike was doing all right...
...Damascus last week French officers were ordered not to speak to Britons who had taken over the city (TIME, June 11). But among the little people, practical cooperation was hard to down...