Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joint backing of the Socialist and Communist parties. Mitterrand bore down heavily on "social injustice" in France, sneered that "De Gaulle poses problems which concerned our fathers. I am trying to pose problems which will concern our sons." The candidate on the right, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, spoke feelingly on the subject that still rankles and moves many a Frenchman - the Gaullist betrayal of the Algerian French...
...eleven-year gap in the legend-until 1836, when a tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could produce no papers to prove...
Last year Brown was deluged by criticism when he spoke out on behalf of the Black Muslims ("the more commotion the better")-although he does not share their separatist beliefs. Cleveland Sportscaster John Fitzgerald advised him on the air to pipe down and stick to football. Later, buttonholing Brown in the Cleveland dressing room, he explained to him: "I've always admired you as a football player, Jim. I've never looked on you as a Negro." "That's ridiculous!" Brown snapped. "You have to look at me as a Negro. Look...
...take "number-one" votes away from some of them -- especially from Thomas H. D. Mahoney, who was fighting hard for re-election after only one term on the Council. Even at the beginning of the campaign, Mahoney and McGovern never hit it off personally; by the end, they spoke to each other, but little more...
...defeat. When he came riding into the white man's camp that cold, snowy morning in 1877, there was a bullet scratch across his forehead, wounds on his wrist and back, and bullet holes in his shirt and leggings. Handing his rifle to Colonel Nelson Miles, he spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. The old men are all dead. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills...