Word: speech
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After reading from Corazon Aquino's September speech at Havard, Bok said that she teaches a course at Brandeis on the philosophy of war "so that I'm very involved in the issue...
Gorton had recently been promising voters that "his friend in the White House" was going to eliminate Washington from a list of states that might be saddled with a nuclear dump site. Reagan, however, indicated during his speech in support of Gorton that the state would not get special consideration. Gorton immediately lost his slim lead and never recovered...
Finally, Gerber feels that we should modify our speech in order to facilitate international communication. It has never been the responsibility of any people or government to deliberately fool with its language in order to make things easier for foreigners. Would we deliberately restrict our vocabulary to use of idioms to that end, thus minimizing our own potential for expression? Of course...
...legendary populist Senator Huey Long, was elected to the Senate in 1948, one day shy of his 30th birthday. But he was not shy about anything when he arrived on the Hill. Ignoring the tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...
Certainly, Enrile took belligerence to new heights when he addressed last week's rally. Ostensibly an anti-Communism meeting, it was the first time that Enrile aligned himself with Marcos supporters, who have been holding rallies almost weekly. During his speech, Enrile hinted that the Aquino government was tainted by corruption. Filipinos, he said, need a government that is "stable, honest and clean." Although just five days before, Enrile and Aquino had seemed to agree not to criticize each other publicly, the Defense Minister tore into the President for her conciliatory approach to the Philippines' Communist insurgents. Earlier, he demanded...