Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tremulous voice, Sakharov spoke of the imprisonment of his close friend and collaborator, Physicist Yuri Orlov, 52. A diminutive man with a shock of red hair, Orlov is chief of the unofficial eleven-member Helsinki monitoring committee, which keeps close watch on Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreement. A member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, he had devoted himself in the past year to organizing the Helsinki group in Moscow and other cities...
...made several highly naive comments-about the "stabilizing" influence of the 13,000 Cuban troops still in Angola, for instance-that the State Department was busy "correcting" for some days thereafter. Following talks with several African heads of state who were attending a national celebration in Tanzania, Young spoke ambiguously at times about the role Britain should play in a Rhodesian settlement...
...went out to Whacker's house the other day to discuss the implications--and the potential beneficial effects--of the forthcoming research with him. I was greeted at the gate to his palatial home by a dog which, somewhat surprisingly, spoke seven languages and, after he showed me to the front door, challenged me to a game of whist...
...Look over here in this corner!" commanded Whacker. I looked, but the sight that confronted me didn't register for a couple of minutes. I was dumbfounded. It was Mayor Vellucci--at least it looked like Mayor Vellucci--but it spoke in the voice of George Wald. It was giving what appeared to be a lecture on Death. That's how I knew...
...from a reclining position because of an illness contracted during his recent stay in prison, the frail 74-year-old statesman worked the crowd into a chaotic frenzy with his low-key call for the defeat of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in next month's parliamentary elections. As he spoke quietly but passionately about the brutal repression and loss of political freedom under Gandhi's rule, Narayan was frequently interrupted with wild cries of "Long live J.P.," his nickname, and "Long live Janata," the coalition party formed in opposition to Gandhi...