Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Paul made references to abortion, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare during his speech at the conclusion of a Mass in the square on the steps outside St. Peter's Basilica...
Although democratic nations are a weak force in the United Nations, their influence is improving, said a visiting U.N. diplomat yesterday in a speech before 200 at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
Harvard Professor of Legal Medicine William S. Curran, who is one of four conference chairmen, will deliver a speech about the legal ramifications of the AIDS screening test...
What to make of this extraordinary labor? Coles is an erudite, fiercely moral man. But he is not a gifted interviewer, and, judging by his books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like...
...complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with my leader," she blurted. "In love!" She then paid Gorbachev, the object of her affection, the ultimate compliment. During the 5 1/2-hour speech that he delivered to the congress two weeks ago, she recalled, "I wasn't even sleepy." It is on that kind of wakeful worker that Gorbachev is pinning his hopes...