Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first Cabinet meeting after his reelection, Reagan pulled out of his coat pocket a copy of his famous 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater in which he laid down his scripture about forcing Government to heel. It was like Moses bringing back the tablets for review...
...psyche came last week from the 90-year-old Earl of Stockton, who as Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Bent with age and leaning on a silver-topped cane, he rose from a red leather bench in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech to a hushed, expectant house. Referring to the strike, he said, "It breaks my heart to see what is happening to our country today. This terrible strike is being carried on by the best men in the world. They beat the Kaiser's army and Hitler's army...
...speech to the Politburo last week, Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko called for an increase in his country's defense capability. Then, in answers to written questions submitted by NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb, Chernenko suddenly appeared more conciliatory. If Washington is sincere about arms-limitation talks, he said, "we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries...
...conflicting groups, but of a radical seet of Sikhs committed to violence. The Sikhs who had been using the temple as their base were gathered under the fanatical but charismatic Bhindranwale, an extremist leader who was killed in the Golden Temple fighting. His Khomeini-like messianic appeal included public speeches glorifying violent means aimed at acquiring a separate Sikh nation. "It should be clear to all Sikhs...that we are slaves and want liberation at any cost. To achieve this end, arm yourselves and prepare for a war and wait for orders." Bhindranwale proclaimed in a public speech. In reference...
...could hold him off. As it grew probable that Minnesota would spare Mondale that ignominy, the emphasis shifted to the size and, secondarily, the meaning of Reagan's "mandate" in the House and Senate. Then came the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: a genial acceptance speech by Reagan after a moving concession by Mondale. Through it all, the same anchors who had said the outcome was settled kept plaintively urging people in states where polls remained open to get out and vote...