Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council handed down different verdicts to three groups the Rugby Football Club, the Japan Cultural Society, and the Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society--which sought reimbursement for refreshments...
Although the council approved the Rugby Club's request, the Japan Cultural Society and the Speech and Debate Society were sent back to the Finance Committee for further deliberation...
...final week, Ferraro concentrated more on women. In a Los Angeles speech she said, "My candidacy is not just for me. It's for everyone. It's not just a symbol. It's a breakthrough. It's not just a statement. It's a bond between women all over America." Ferraro also appeared on Phil Donahue's morning talk show, a program regularly viewed by a predominantly female audience of some 7 million. The interview became tense when Donahue pressed the candidate on whether she had cried when confronted with newspaper reports...
...During a speech at the University of Minnesota at Duluth last week, he started to tell one of his most affecting campaign stories. "My father died, and my mother raised the last three boys, and I was one of them," he said. "And she put every dime she had into her kids . . ." A group of Reagan supporters in the balcony moaned "Awwww" in mock sympathy...
...past 70, and more than a decade in office, Nehru was becoming increasingly disillusioned and crotchety. Sometimes he snapped at Indira, too, saying "Don't talk nonsense" or telling her to keep quiet. She unfailingly did as he ordered. One night in January 1964, Nehru finished a speech, then suffered a stroke and collapsed in Indira's arms. For more than four months, she not only nursed him but aided him in running the country from his sickbed. When Nehru died of another stroke that May, a dry-eyed Indira supervised every detail of the tumultuous funeral...