Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father's Day. In Dudley, Worcesteshire, when the minister intoned "speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace," George Thomas' son spoke. He didn't want his father to become a bigamist...
...rumbled down the Rocky Mountain grades into Butte, Harry Truman was a bitter, baffled man. But Butte's volatile and traditionally Democratic miners gave him a big hand. Forty thousand people lined the streets to cheer him, and 10,000 jammed a high-school stadium to hear him speak. Facing them, he suddenly dropped the folksy role he had been playing and launched a passionate and rashly phrased assault on the Republican Congress. He spoke savagely of G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Bob Taft: "I guess he'd let you starve. I'm not that kind." He was rewarded...
...Gallup pollsters reported that 71% of all U.S. citizens speak no foreign language, that 47% don't even want to. Of those who wished they did, most wanted to learn Spanish or French...
...skeptical Scottish undergraduate named Loudon Hamilton, who, when Buchman first urged him to listen for God's instructions, replied: "I have been accustomed to address God myself on occasion . . . but that was only a one-way communication. If God were to speak to me, as you suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven...
Three of the honorary degree recipients will speak at this afternoon's meeting. Their names, traditionally a secret, will not be announced until the start of the program...