Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign-policy terms, though, a nebulous agreement simply to talk again was not much to boast about after a week of intense and much publicized diplomacy that began at the United Nations in New York. Appearing before the General Assembly on Monday, Reagan gave one of the most conciliatory speeches of his presidency, proposing regular negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on many levels and varying issues. But Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed...
...moral life of children, and a chapter in this book is entitled "Children and the Nuclear Bomb," in which he discusses the results of several years of intense interviews with children about their thoughts on nukes. It is from this manuscript that he developed his widely noted Los Alamos speech. Coles says he interviewed some 100 children, of all ages and social backgrounds, about 25-30 times each; he says he talked to another 200 about five times each, as well as about 35 teachers. This "direct observation," he suggests, is the only way at getting at the context...
Undergraduate Council; Harvard-Radcliffe Speech and Parliamentary Debate; HAND Community Program; House Committee and Intramurals; Student Assembly...
After a 30-second costume change--Duke, poor blighter, is showing his age--scene two pops up, with Reginald Jeeves as official narrator. This scene involves a vacation and a speech to a girls' school full of schoolgirls, and it collects its share of laughs. The picture of the impeccable Jeeves devolving into Wooster or a starched headmistress is, in itself, enough to supply a right humorous air to the scene. The second act is more of this good stuff: a friendly poke at beastly aunts, a discourse on the proper waistcoat, and a drunken tirade shouted by a lovesick...
After Ali checked into the hospital to complete tests, doctors provided an answer: he was suffering from symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease-slurred speech, loss of coordination, reduced muscle strength and a persistent of fatigue. The doctors' report raised the inevitable questions about whether Ali's problems were a product of his profession, and triggered anew the debate over whether boxing should be banned...