Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Avenue groups clustered by car windows to hear the radio. Transistor radios were everywhere. Students greeted each other with "He's dead," and in the restaurants the few diners spoke in low voices...
...particular satisfaction in speculating about Nixon-and most of the current Nixon talk is journalistic speculation. But it got some extra impetus through an offhand remark by the senior Republican who, according to those same journalists, for so long wanted to "dump Nixon." Dwight Eisenhower, in a televised interview, spoke of Nixon's chances in the event of a G.O.P. convention stalemate: "Now, if there should be one of those deadlocks, I would think he would be one of the likely persons to be examined and approached, because he is, after all, a very knowledgeable and a very courageous...
Amid cries of approval and derision from both sides of the packed House, the Prime Minister rose, nervously shuffled his notes and placed them neatly on the dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies...
Russian tourists visiting Cambridge this week spoke last night on topics ranging from "peaceful coexistence" to the beauty of America women is an informal panel discussion in Harvard Hall...
Yuri Eichenko, a mechanical engineer who is a leader of the group, spoke about Soviet youth, saying that young people is Russia "live well, work and study hard, and show great optimism." He urged "peaceful coexistence" while the USSR raises its standard of living to equal that of the U.S. and commented that "history and time will prove who lives better...