Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adjei spoke. President Kwame Nkrumah was courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission...
...when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made some speeches for the Anti-Saloon League, "and every county I spoke in went...
Critics of group instruction dismiss it as mere gimmickry that de-emphasizes discipline and overlooks outstanding individual talents. When Joan Geilfuss, a Pace student, divided her group classes in Charleston, S.C., into teams to liven things up, traditionalists spoke scornfully of her "piano parties." But Joan could scarcely have cared less. Last year not one of her 35 students dropped out, although the estimated dropout rate for children who take up piano playing in the U.S. is over 30% after the first year...
...Bender spoke out against turning Harvard into a college for the academic elite, and against making it a "pre-graduate" school. He saw a real danger that the kind of student body he did so much to shape was to be replaced by a sterile, super-intellectual community. For his strongly-worded warnings the release substitutes bland sentiments ranging in age from 10 to 50 years...
Kennedy believed right, and Prado proved it almost every time he spoke. Unlike most of his fellow Latin American chief executives, who skirt the subject of Castro-Communist penetration of the hemisphere, Prado made no attempt to camouflage his feelings. He told a joint session of Congress that "Peru stands with you in the struggle against Communism in the world and in our hemisphere-whatever measures you may be required to take to combat it, you will find my country at your side...