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Word: speeches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin Toffler, claimed he discovered "the Internet before the Internet existed" and said his life was given to the cause of nonviolent social change. He was starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capture of the Unicorn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...question and answer period following Heston's speech primarily focused on his role in the NRA and his staunch defense of second amendment rights...

Author: By Richard J. Wegener, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heston Lays Down Commandments at Law School | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...interview with The Crimson after his speech, Heston further defended the right to bear arms...

Author: By Richard J. Wegener, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heston Lays Down Commandments at Law School | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Okihiro, who is also the visiting director of the Asian-American Studies department at Columbia, emphasized the need for greater attention to ethnic studies in a speech Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AAA Conference Draws Hundreds | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...underlined that reappear in the masterpieces. For example, the declaration "I am that I am" from Exodus 3: 14 is found not only in a letter De Vere wrote to his father-in-law in 1584 but also in "Sonnet 121." In The Merry Wives of Windsor, a Falstaff speech refers to a "weaver's beam," two words highlighted in the Bible (II Samuel 21: 19). Oxfordians can cite scores of other examples linking De Vere's Bible to Shakespeare's texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: The Bard's Beard? | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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