Word: speech
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...fighter appears anxious as the evening wears on. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out sheets of paper - his acceptance speech, in English. While Pacquiao has no problem understanding English, which is widely used in the Philippines, he is much more comfortable speaking Tagalog, the national language, and Cebuano, the dialect he grew up with. But he is a hit with the New York City audience. All he really has to do is grin, and they are in his hands. A Filipino listening to the speech, however, senses the trouble Pacquiao will face if he decides...
Graduate School of Design student Mais S. Al Azab said that she appreciated having an Arab voice represented at Harvard, and she called Khalaf’s speech “fair to the heritage of the Arab cultures...
Josh N. Weiss, associate director of Harvard’s Global Negotiation Project, agreed that Khalaf brought “balance” and an “important perspective” in her speech...
Khalaf’s speech was preceded by an introductory address by Kennedy School professor R. Nicholas Burns and a welcome address by World Bank senior health policy specialist Sameh El-Saharty...
...inspirational locker room speech in “Any Given Sunday,” Al Pacino’s character Tony D’Amato, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks, states, “The inches we need are everywhere around...