Search Details

Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Patty on Friday, Bailey introduced a witness who supported her story. Ulysses Hall, a tall, athletic black man, told the jury that DeFreeze, whom he had met while they were both in jail, had invited him to join his organization. Hall said that he declined the offer, but spoke to DeFreeze after the bank robbery. DeFreeze, he said, told him that he had had three ways of handling Patty: to kill her; to turn her loose; or to adopt the course that he chose-"put her in a position where she'd become a part of the gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Long Ordeal on the Stand | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Samuelson spoke on the meaning profit held for economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diebold Lectures | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...Arrow spoke on "Why Profits Are Challenged." "The strongest argument for profits has always been they are needed as an incentive," Arrow said. He added that "profits may not be the motive of the economic system today," as management is not in the hands of profit recipients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diebold Lectures | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

Felix does not make shoes anymore. He quit about 12 years ago because he was losing money. As he spoke, he wistfully fingered the thick cowhide he once used to make soles, and conceded that factories can now cut 20 such soles in a few minutes, whereas the same process takes...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Felix the Cobbler Heals Broken Soles | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...press treatment of Cambodia since the fall of the Lon Nol regime last April is a prime example of news distortion. An editorial last summer in The New York Times, titled "Cambodia's Crime," summed up the official view of events there. It spoke of millions of people from Phnom Penh and other cities "forced by the Communists at gunpoint to walk into the countryside without organized provision for food, shelter, physical security, or medical care." It concluded that Cambodia "resembles a giant prison camp with the urban supporters of the former regime now being worked to death on thin...

Author: By R. LEE Penn, | Title: Red Scare Over Cambodia | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | Next