Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With these words, spoken in a slightly nervous voice to a small group of reporters who had been hastily summoned to the White House on Sunday morning, President Ford pardoned the anguished man whom he had succeeded only 30 days before. As a result, Richard Nixon no longer faces the threat of indictment, prosecution and even prison on federal charges arising from the still-festering Watergate scandal. Given the disclosure in the White House tapes that he had tried to cover up the Watergate burglary ever since June 23, 1972, he had faced the serious possibility of being charged with...
Among the Protestants, Billy Graham made the top eleven on the strength of the fact that he "has personally spoken to more people, in more places, than any other evangelist in the world's history." Others included United Church of Christ Minister James Gustaf son, professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, whose quiet work, which insists on the importance of ethical rules, "will influence people in the pews"; Rhodesia's black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David...
...eldest son Mike, 24, was quoted as saying that Richard Nixon owed the American people a "total confession" of his role in Watergate, no red balloons went up at the White House. The President accepted the young divinity student's comment with equanimity. "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak," he said tolerantly, "and not always with my advance approval. I expect that to continue in the future." And that was that...
...proves to be the toughest nut that the Summer School Repertory Theater has tried to crack all season. Joanne Hamlin plays the eternally-optimistic Winnie in what turns out to be a tour de force performance. Throughout the show Hamlin, who has about 95 per cent of all the spoken lines in the play, is buried in a mound of sand, and it is a wonder she can carry her own enthusiasm let alone Winnie's. Despite Hamlin's excellent job, the show is not all that exciting. 90-minute monologues, which is essentially what Beckett has to offer...
...plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures...