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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets, whose The Big Knife is doing a brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...official party arrived at the Garden at 8:55 p.m., five minutes before the program began officially. Churchill received a minute-long ovation as he walked slowly to the platform and bowed briefly to the audience before taking his seat. He was cheered again as he rose to speak, and was interrupted by applause 19 times during the course of his address. At its conclusion he was cheered for less than a minute...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Churchill Warns of Russian Plans in MIT Talk | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Professor William A. Robson, professor of public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will speak on the subject of "Recent Developments in Local Government in Great Britain" in the Litauer Auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Professor Talks at Littauer | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...investigation will not be formalized; Seiler will make specific recommendations, of course, but since he is in the University family, so to speak, his report will have none of the air of an ultimatum about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Survey | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard the Liberal Union said last night it has not yet received any answer to its Sunday telegram to Shostakovich inviting him to speak here in April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale President Bars Shostakovich Talk | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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