Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during his years at the University of Colorado that the soft-spoken editor decided he wanted to manage his own paper. "I spoke to an editor from the largest paper in Colorado," he recalls, "and he told me that three-quarters of the editorials he wrote did not represent his opinion. At that point, I decided that if you have ideas to express, you should have your own organ...
Churchill had spoken and what he had to say was in effect...
Died. Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor ("Shorty") Small, 56, modest, soft-spoken onetime commander of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salt Lake City, the "one ship fleet'' which sank five Japanese warships, saved the U.S.S. Boise in the Solomon Islands Battle of Cape Esperance; of long illness ; in Manhattan...
About two months before Dday, Eisenhower and his top commanders were gathered in a room, beside a sand-table model of the target beaches. After the commanders had spoken in turn, piecing together the total picture of the operation, Winston Churchill stalked on to the platform, clutching his lapels. He said: "I have confidence in you, my commanders. The fate of the world is in your hands...
While Churchill was speaking, the heads of the Lublin Government were conferring in Moscow. It was expected that by next week they would be recognized as Poland's provisional government. Though political purists might cavil at the word "independent," Marshal Stalin had spoken only the literal truth to Prime Minister Churchill at Teheran, since the Lublin Government was Russian-controlled...