Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started when Republican Robert Dornan of California, in a speech before a conservative group, called New York Democrat Thomas Downey "a draft-dodging wimp." Downey heard about it and a couple of days later, as Dornan was walking out of the House chamber, put a hand on the Californian's arm to prevent him from leaving. Asked Downey: "Did you say those things about me?" Dornan wheeled around. "Yes. So what?" Moments later, Dornan grabbed the babyfaced New Yorker by the collar and tie, pulled him close and warned, "Stay out of my face, now and forever...
...represent less than 10% of General Dynamics' monthly billings to the Defense Department and a piddling amount by Pentagon standards. Weinberger was adamant, however, in describing the move not simply as a public relations gesture but a first strike in a "get-tough" policy on defense contractors. In a speech to an American Legion gathering in Washington, Weinberger announced that the Pentagon's auditors would conduct a general review of billing procedures and claims for overhead expenses by all major military contractors. The Defense Secretary added that he had asked the Justice Department to examine possible criminal violations by General...
...will with genuine dignity. Peggy Cass is the family entertainer, Elizabeth Franz its happiest housewife and Gisela Caldwell its edgy protofeminist, whose eventual crack-up seems to result from her discontent with women's lot. The most affecting performance comes from Bette Henritze, as a stroke victim whose singsong speech does not obscure a larger tragedy. When she admits, "I'm not very demonstrative," she speaks for the whole family and sets in motion a tentative embrace of reconciliation that ends the play without really changing the lonely togetherness of the octette...
Just as a hellotrophic plant depends on the sun for its growth, American politicians depend on television for political surveys White said in his speech, which was sponsored by the Institute of Politics' Student Authority Committee...
...speech to California businessmen, the burly Prime Minister said he had been told by a Washington official that the U.S. had instituted a "drastic scaling down" of military cooperation with New Zealand. On the list of cuts: joint military exercises, some intelligence sharing and U.S. training of New Zealand military officers. According to Lange, the cuts threatened the capacity of his country to maintain its military surveillance in the South Pacific, which in turn might affect the ANZUS defense pact...