Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limousine left from behind Widener shortly after 3 p.m. to take the ambassador to B.C., where he spoke later in the afternoon...
...four of us made small talk, waiting for Jim. Around 2:30 he arrived. It took him a long time to get going. For most of the interview, Robbie and Jon grinned like guilty schoolboys and Ray played games with his fingers whenever Jim spoke. This was because Jim had difficulty getting his words out and when he succeeded, they came only slowly...
While a grad student, he spent a year teaching English at Robert College in Istanbul. He often spoke of his year as an English teacher, and in 1956, while on a trip to Athens, he attended a reunion staged by some of those former students...
...back to committee. "We are going to tell the President," declared Minority Leader Gerald Ford, "to make reductions at the demand of Congress. This is what we should do as a legislative body." Majority Leader Carl Albert scurried about the floor trying to hold wavering Democrats in line. He spoke to some 30, but won over only three. In the end, the House voted 202 to 182 to recommit the resolution to committee. Thirty-four Democrats, including Mills, helped the Republicans trounce the Administration...
...were going to catch supersonic culprits up in the air, but they did hope it would at least serve as a precedent. Says Santa Barbara City Attorney Stanley Tomlinson: "I know we'll come in for some kidding about this, but it's high time somebody somewhere spoke out against this darned nuisance...