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Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Fall 3000 students went to hear Willy Brandt speak in Sanders Theatre. 1800 were turned away at the door. Later the same scene was reenacted when Ross Barnett spoke in the same hall. Two years ago even more people were turned away when Nelson Rockefeller spoke in Sanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Space | 9/28/1963 | See Source »

...basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate, convinced that the whole thing was a plot to steal their language. When linguists tackled the Cocama tribe in Peru, they found that the men spoke one language, the women another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Apostle of the Alphabet | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Groveling Subjects. Mwata Yambo XXIV had been a progressive sort who encouraged tribal children to attend school and urged males to work instead of loafing while wives labored. He spoke French, got along well with Europeans. His successor displays no such interest in 20th century manners. He is suspicious of whites, speaks only Lunda and a little Swahili...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Back in the Bush | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...homily, a monsignor whisked the papers away, and the Pope rose to lead the crowd in singing the Nicene Creed in Latin. Then, quickly, he moved down to a chair set below the throne to receive a small group for a personal greeting. An Episcopal priest from Chicago spoke briefly about an ecumenical center to which he belongs. A boy presented the Pope with a soccer ball, neatly wrapped in white paper. Paul courteously rose to assist an Irish woman confined to a wheelchair with a broken ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: Wednesday in St. Peter's | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...invitation was extended to Wallace yesterday, following a regular meeting of the Young Demos Executive Board Tuesday night. Jones spoke to the Governor immediately following his phone conversation with Frazier...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Gov. Wallace Accepts Harvard Speaking Date | 9/26/1963 | See Source »

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