Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solemnly listened to the strains of the Vietnamese national an them, then declared: "I wish you success and a constitution that will open an era democratic, progressive and prosperous for all the people." Nguyen Baluong, 65, the senior delegate and presiding officer for the Assembly's opening session, spoke for the delegates: "We must have a government that carries out the desires of the people, and such a government can only be formed when our nation has a firm constitution...
...somebody remembered that there was no airstrip anywhere in the islands. So the terrified pilot had to do his best in the mud of a seldom used race track. When the shaken conspirators emerged from the plane, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of curious islanders, none of whom spoke enough Spanish to understand that they had been conquered by the Argentines...
Later, the Mayor spoke to the demonstrators, who tentatively put down their pointed demnads, "Jim Crow Must Go" and "Mayor Lindsay, We Want Schools," to listen. He talked about the need for better schools and about the city's growing resources to provide them. In the end, the crowd dispersed peacefully and everyone, including the Mayor, went home with a story to tell...
Some 20 blocks away from the Sheraton Hotel where the former King aide spoke is one of the taverns he referred to. Its doors are usually fastened back. The voices and the jukebox mingle with the noise outside. The bar's dark interior seems just an extension of the sidewalk, a part of the neighborhood...
...Paul Washington, a Negro Episcopalian, talked about Malcolm at one of Palmer's rallies. "He performed a kind of miracle as he spoke," Washington said. "When he spoke of the black man, instead of my being humiliated, I actually felt proud. I felt like I was somebody rather than nobody...