Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although President Johnson spoke in his bombing halt-broadcast Thursday as though attendance of both the South Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front was assured, South Vietnam's President Thieu announced a day later that his government would not attend the session on Wednesday...
...emotional defense of Jackie by Cushing-who had presided at her first wedding in 1953 and at John Kennedy's funeral ten years later-was not very well received in Rome either. Before Cushing spoke out, the Vatican's chief press officer, Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, had expressed the church's official view that Jackie had "knowingly violated the law of the church" and was ineligible to receive the sacraments. Although reluctant to dispute a cardinal, Vatican theologians simply reiterated their interpretation of the church's law after Cushing's statement...
...Mitchell spoke to an audience of about 150 people in the Leverett House dining room. "To replace the rhetoric of liberalism," she told them, "we need a counter-vision with counter-values. Today, the movement on the left offers the only hope. If it fails, if we do not find a way to give power back to people and restore dignity to black people, then there will be horrible days ahead...
...have not only protest but alternatives, at every level of politics," Bond said. "It's going to take everyone that can be enlisted, everyone that's sick of the politics of today--the politics that has kept us looking over our shoulders instead of at the road ahead." He spoke of organizing people at the local level, on campuses and in communities, of mobilizing old forms of political power and looking for new ones...
Coach O'Dell spoke highly of the Crimson's "crisp offensive blocking" and the running combination of Captain Vic Gatto and Ray Hornblower. O'Dell added, "We're still coming and we'll stand a shot at them if we perform our very best...