Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King is still a Democrat, and as President Carter pointed out in his Lynn endorsement speech for King, he was nominated in a fair and open primary (where he defeated one-term Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...high cheekbones are riveting, rather than cover-girl cute. Much of her appeal stems from her continuous movements: the shrug of a shoulder, the toss of a stray curl, the arch of an eyebrow. Her hands are especially graceful, whether swimming gently in the air to punctuate her speech, or flinging back a scarf in an Isadora Duncan-like gesture. The interviewer drinks in the entire picture--the jawline, the blacks and purple clothing, the dark eyes set in white skin--and a one-word impression forms in her mind: dramatic...
...passage of Question One places White in a strong position for reelection next November. "I think its going to help the mayor," Mark B. Helm '78, a speech-writer for White, said at the victory party yesterday. "He had a lot riding on it and it looks like he's won big on this one," he added...
Paul Goma, a Rumanian novelist and dissident, discussed the human rights transgressions of the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu and United States support of Ceausescu's government in a speech yesterday at the Center for International Affairs...
...farmer can work out deals to sell part of his crop in October, say, but get the cash next January if that would be better for tax purposes. All of which should stir pride in the ghost of William Jennings Bryan, who insisted in his 1896 cross-of-gold speech that "the farmer ... is as much a businessman as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain...