Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listeners interrupted his 24-min. speech 54 times with applause, and when Reagan shrugged, "Well, I've got to go now," they shouted, "No! No! No!" Reagan waved genially. A thousand balloons floated skyward. The crowd chanted, "Four more years! Four more years...
Bush, the well-bred Ivy Leaguer, does not attack his opponents very convincingly. Instead of going for the jugular, he often feints and pricks without cutting deep. Too often he seems to think out loud, and his hand gestures tend to be imperfectly synced with his speech. In a recent address at the Illinois capital, his lampoon of Mondale had a schoolboy quality. "I must say, I'd hate to be Walter Mondale these days," said Bush. "I do, I honestly do feel sorry for Fritz Mondale at times. He's a negative sort of guy. Whenever...
With fine political acumen, Deng, the senior member of China's Politburo and chairman of the Central Military Commission, identified himself wholly with the P.L.A. during the solemn day of rehabilitation. After reviewing the assembled troops, he mounted a rostrum to deliver an eight-minute speech that made it clear that China is proud of itself these days. Said he: "The whole country has taken on a new look. .. Today our people are full of joy and pride." Noting the initialing only a week earlier of an agreement with Britain under which the Crown Colony of Hong Kong will...
...concluded his speech, a 1,200-member P.L.A. band struck up the first of several marches. The parade's leading unit, a 153-man, three-service honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene...