Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night before the debate, Glenn delivered an unusually warm five-minute TV speech, a last-ditch, do-or-die appeal to New Hampshire voters that cost $10,000. Ten reruns were scheduled. Hart, desperate not to lose momentum, dumped $100,000 into television ads and cranked up his solid organization. Mondale just sat tight. His aides fretted. "New Hampshire's not our kind of state," said one, alluding to its Yankee conservatism-and orneriness. "There's a big what-the-hell vote. A candidate like Hart could single-shot...
...policy there was easing a bit on Capitol Hill. But it was rising again on U.S. military aid to the government of El Salvador and to the antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua. Secretary of State George Shultz last week defended the Administration before two Senate committees and in a speech on human rights. Said he: "American foreign policy, taken around the world, is going extremely well...
...monarch's speech will address Spanish-American relations, David A. Aloian '49, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association which runs the Commencement exercises, said yesterday...
...Commencement thesis" of John Adams, Class of 1755, concerned the necessity of civil government, according to the historical accounts of Samuel Eliot Morrison. Also in the early days. Thomas Wentworth created a splash with his speech on the balance of powers...
...period characterized by student dissent--Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, interrupting his speech several times in an overcrowded Sanders Theatre...