Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anna knew she had to have some new shoes today, and Carlo had helped her try on every pair in the store. Carlo spoke wearily. "Well that's every pair of shoes in the place...
...Catholics have been cut off from Rome and from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. (At the only legally open Catholic church, in Peking, the Mass is still said in Latin.) The Vatican has refused to recognize Fu's election. But when Pope John Paul II recently spoke of those ties to the Chinese Catholic community that "never have been broken spiritually," he was implicitly offering to open diplomatic relations again. Peking quickly responded...
...call up the Secretary of the Treasury and tell him, "I just tried out two of your dimes on Times Square, and they worked like a dream. It looks like another great day for the coinage!" He hears a radio news broadcast and has another offbeat response: "The newscaster spoke with a barking sort of hilarity, as though life were a comical steeplechase, with unconventional steeds and hazards and vehicles involved. He made me feel that even I was a contestant - in a bathtub drawn by three aardvarks, perhaps...
President Bok discussed the Core Curriculum and spoke of "developing basic habits of mind...
...were permitted aboard the plane, where they talked with Vlasova. Dressed in a snappy black jumpsuit, the dancer said she indeed desired to return home. "I love my husband. But he has made his decision to stay here, while I have made mine to leave." On each occasion, Vlasova spoke while surrounded by Soviet officials...