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Word: speech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Lillian also said she had no regrets about her comment last week that if Kennedy sought the nomination she hoped nothing would happen to him. She said she made the remark out of motherly concern and that newsmen covering her speech had to pick out something, so they took it out of the clear blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter's Approval Rating Drops to Record Low 19% | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...Cruel Shoes's degenerative disease is one that reaches the speech centers of the brain before it finally kills off the victim, and the end of the book wanders off into a cloud of incoherent poetry. Whether it's serious stuff or deliberate satire of high-school literary pretense, only Martin and his confessor know. Here's an example...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cruelty to Animals | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

Connally hopes his forceful style will help him cut across ideological lines and win support from blacks and workers who have opposed him in the past. At a building trades convention in New Jersey this summer, his rousing speech had union members cheering. Labor leaders passed the word to hold back on providing him many more such forums. He campaigned last month in black and ethnic neighborhoods of Providence, and has hired a Chicago firm to devise a strategy to lure black votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Dean Rosovsky, whose remarks were sandwiched between performances of the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club, amused the audience with a humorous speech on "What to expect from the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3500 Flood Tercentenary for Opening | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...closing speech, Cuban premier Fidel Castro, the leader of the movement for the next three years, said his leadership during the conference was "not to benefit Cuba...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Aligned Nations Meet, Condemn Mid-East Treaty | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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