Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke about the "crisis of the professions" to an audience of seniors in caps and gowns...
...died when Russell was five. The parallel with Thomas Wolfe, another lanky, literary Southerner whose father was a stonemason, is striking. Baker says for that reason he was unable to read Look Homeward, Angel until he was 45. "I heard those train whistles in the night, and they spoke of something else to me than the wonder of America." What they spoke of, he says, was trainmen out of work as the Depression deepened...
...Vice President and lonely, threw his arm around Baker, pulled him into his office and began a long, intimate, anecdote-filled confession of his hopes for the coming political season. Baker had dealt with Johnson during L.BJ.'s glory days as Senate majority leader, but as the great man spoke he scribbled something on a piece of paper, buzzed for his secretary and handed the paper to her. Soon she returned and handed the paper back. Some time after that the interview ended with Johnson still effusing. Another reporter who followed Baker into Johnson's office got a look...
...City, Fla., liked to recall the great days of Reconstruction, when blacks served in Congress. The boy was fired with a determination to recover that glory, and he learned early that there was no more potent weapon than the human voice. "I always liked to talk," he admitted. "Dad spoke beautifully and clearly. A word like 'responsibility' trembled with meaning the way he pronounced it." Though Randolph's youthful ambition to become an actor was thwarted by his parents, he memorized several of Shakespeare's tragedies and loved to recite them with rolling cadences...
...dissected a frog in med school, never made rounds as an intern, never even earned an M.D. degree. No matter. When Actor Alan Alda, 43, known to millions of televiewers as Army Captain Hawkeye Pierce of the Korean War-era 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H), spoke at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement last week, he was absolutely right in telling the class, "In some ways you and I are alike. We both study the human being. We both try to reduce suffering. We've both dedicated ourselves to years of hard...