Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the stricken city, the jet made a slow, 1,500-ft.-high pass so that its passengers could assess the full extent of the disaster. At the airport, the President spoke in drizzling rain to a welcoming committee led by Mayor Victor H. Schiro and Governor John McKeithen. Pledging the full help of the Federal Government ("Human suffering and physical damage are measureless"), he set off on his tour...
...immediate area around Chhamb, or whether it had the far graver purpose of crossing India's international boundary itself to strike at the vital road that connects Jammu to Srinagar. In New Delhi, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan declared flatly that Pakistan had invaded Indian territory, and officials spoke ominously of a nearby Indian armored division capable of moving into the Chhamb area within 24 hours. It might well move with caution, since India's armored equipment consists mostly of aged British Centurions and U.S. World War II Shermans-no match for Pakistan's Patton tanks...
...almost three hours he spoke, finding something to say to every Mexican...
...broke away at Constantine's bidding to try and form a government. Fist fights and hubbub punctuated the session, and all the King's men and all of Papandreou's felt the pressure of last-minute efforts at coercion that included dark threats of murder. Tsirimokos spoke confidently of victory. The real winner turned out to be Papandreou, who, in his usual style, waited outside in the lobby before walking in dramatically to raise his hand and vote...
...response to week-long clashes between the police and student mobs numbering as many as 10,000. With more than 400 cops nursing wounds and bruises, Park declared garrison law and rushed the front-line 6th Division into the capital city of Seoul. Several hours before he spoke, soldiers stormed the University of Korea campus, cracked the heads of rock-throwing students, routed others from classrooms and a cafeteria with tear-gas grenades. Sobbed a coed: "How can they do this? How can they treat students on campus like enemy soldiers...