Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Reed Club, a recognized undergraduate group, last month held a meeting at which Gerhart Eisler, against whom the Justice Department has been conducting deportation proceedings, spoke on "'The Marxist Theory of Social Change." At the urging of radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., a number of alumni and others wrote the College, protesting against Eisler's being permitted to speak on Harvard property...
...spoke an outraged Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1893, after the nation's business had been stalled in the 53rd Congress by a filibuster which had lasted two months. Last week, watching the Senate of the 81st Congress go into the second week of an undistinguished filibuster, many a citizen would agree with the late Senator Lodge...
...phone rang peremptorily in the modest Hollywood home of Mrs. Elsie Thomas. Over 2,450 miles, her daughter's voice spoke raggedly in her ear: "Emory is going to kill us. He has a gun. Talk him out of this awful thing." Emory was on the phone. As she heard her daughter's sobs in the background, Mrs. Thomas begged him, with paralyzed inadequacy: "Please-be a good boy." Her son-in-law's tense voice came back: "It's too late, Mama, it's too late...
...vocal member. In a drab little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
After the meeting, in the privacy of his own home, Sun wearily spoke his mind: "The new government, no matter who heads it, will face even worse difficulties than mine." China had little hope, he added, of negotiating a satisfactory peace with the Communists or of holding off the Reds if fighting was resumed...