Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees; although he had escaped into the army, he still spoke the Teeside tongue. Andy and company were created more from memory than imagination...
...entered an auditorium through the back door to dodge some 500 churlish student pickets who were parading outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely like us," the crowd of 1,700 hissed loudly...
...Saigon her husband was doing much the same thing. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, top adviser and secret police chief, spoke to seven Western newsmen at the presidential palace, told them in a 2¼-hour interview that...
...French-speaking province of Quebec has felt itself unhappily isolated. Québecois complain that they are treated as second-class citizens by the English-speaking Canadians. As for Frenchmen, when they noticed Quebec at all, they tended to regard it as a chilly place populated by peasants who spoke an unforgivable French...
...almost as if Supreme Cour justices and laymen alike are resigned to the letter of blue laws living on for ever, although their spirit has long beer dead. New York State Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor spoke for the majority of the citizens in 1904 when he rebuked the police for trying to enforce "dead-letter laws" not supported by the public. "It is not the business of the police to revive them," he said. "They are not employed and paid by the citizens for any such purpose...