Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucker, who for nine years was an attache of the United States embassy in Moscow and who toured the USSR last year with Adlai Stevenson, spoke on "Education and the Soviet Society" at the second Thursday lecture...
...vote was postponed until this week, but most of the OAS ambassadors spoke out in favor of the meeting. It will probably convene in Washington within two weeks. At least, by virtue of publicity and prestige, the conference can make Caribbean warfare less respectable. At most, it can get at root causes by pressuring the Dominican Republic and Cuba toward democracy and coexistence...
...down by several nominees, e.g., Executive Editor Lee Hills of John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico's Bob White, but, as one Whitney aide explains, "nearly everyone we spoke to mentioned his name; so we got in touch with him." Asked for an opinion. Chicago's Marshall Field Jr.-for whose Sun-Times White had served as a part-time consultant (1956-58)-offered a blue-chip recommendation. Five weeks ago White flew to London, met Ambassador Whitney...
Switching to another mood, Khrushchev boasted that "in five to seven years we will be stronger than you. We developed the hydrogen bomb before you. Our rockets carry warheads many times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days...
...White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...