Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gross later met with Reagan for 30 minutes. She described the President as "vastly uniformed... It was scary." He told me that Americans had the privilege of freedom of speech, but also the responsibility to be right," she added, drawing laughter from the crowd...
...speech last week, Khomeini urged his troops not to return home to celebrate the Iranian new year, which begins on March 21. This could have been a tacit admission that large numbers of "volunteers" have refused to participate in human-wave attacks and are taking any opportunity to desert the war zone. Many of them were lured to the front after being told that they would become part of a reserve corps for the defense of Iranian cities in event of an emergency and that they were needed to march in the giant parade to celebrate the fifth anniversary...
...acknowledged that negotiating a retraction could be almost as complex as a trial. Moreover, retraction rules can resemble unconstitutional coercion, warned New York City Attorney James Goodale, a former vice chairman of the New York Times Co. Said he: "Journalists perceive mandatory-retraction regulations as a threat to free speech...
...like his father's and grandfather's before him, he might pass for an immigrant long shoreman or an off-duty officer. But the appearance is what he calls "the great fur coat of attitude." Beneath it is a wary, hypersensitive poet, alive to the nuances of speech and feeling...
...children, and in an educational situation; if a school says, "Pray (or do what you feel like)," a child assumes that prayer is a part of learning. Finally, school prayer violates a fundamental assumption of American life, one that has something to do with privacy, something with freedom of speech, and something less codified and explicit: that one ought to be able to retain one's humanity without being made to feel a pariah in one's own country...