Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden, sharp rise in oil prices inflamed all sorts of problems, increasing government controls, intensifying nationalism and calling into question the future of free economies. People were gripped with the fear that events had overtaken their ability?or their government's ability?to cope. Otherwise sober men spoke of extreme solutions: repudiation of international debts, massive currency devaluations, the suspension of parliamentary government, even military intervention in the producing countries...
...foot still on the ground, when a simple Bedouin began running toward him shouting, "Ya, Faisal!" (the Arab equivalent of "Hey"). Bodyguards started to chase the man, but the King stopped them. "Don't drive him away," said Faisal. "Perhaps he has something important to tell me." They spoke for a few minutes and the Bedouin went away smiling...
...Faisal emanates a dignity that stamps him as special. He looks older than 68. His face is deeply wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
...since all five other students in Afro 115b received As or A-minuses while she received a C. And Dean Whitlock explained last week that in such a case the commission has to determine not whether a complaint is correct but whether it is plausible. But commission members never spoke to Samkange, who is now a professor of African-American Studies at Northeastern University. Their feeble excuse is that they were told in early fall that he was abroad...
Daniel F. Ford '70, executive director of the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, spoke in Searsport, Me., last week in an effort to publicize the dangers of the nuclear power plant...