Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared speech for the noon Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Law said: "The combat between death and life claims its casualties in battered or abandoned children; young people destroyed by drugs, alcohol, the dignities of their bodies violated by the sexual immorality willingly or unwillingly practiced...
...unfortunately resigns himself to death and not only accepts it but also inflicts it," said the Pope, standing before the altar and reading his speech in Italian as a light wind blew his gold robe...
...role of pallbearers to democracy in Central America." Such attacks predictably backfired among members of Congress who saw their patriotism impugned. Accusing the Reaganauts of Red baiting, the Democrats used some scare tactics of their own, darkly warning that Nicaragua could become "another Viet Nam." In a passionate speech that climaxed the House debate, Speaker O'Neill revived old nightmares with his declaration, "I see us becoming engaged, step by step, in a military situation that brings our boys directly into the fighting...
...flight away from perhaps the most critical "choke point" of all, the Panama Canal. There have been some ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear bombers patrol the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida...
...Heart) finds simmering violence and sudden affection in this man. O'Leary foretokens a sad future when he naively envisions an assembly line as an exhibition hall for his competitive drive and skill. As the youth, Rapp makes the stage glow in what could have been a formulaic speech about his having yearned to be an actor even before he knew that the profession existed. The finest performance is Ivey's as the play's forceful center, the clangy-voiced, flighty, phrase- turning mother with a heart of gold and a will of molybdenum. She always gets her way. Perhaps...