Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston lawyers Harry Wilson and Laurie Rosenberg spoke briefly, encouraging continued political activism. "We've got to let everybody know that we think what's going on is wrong, "Wilson said...
...away. For instance you find many corporation people saying, 'But who are these democratic leaders?' And it's not convincing to them when you say, 'I can't give you any names.' They send fact-finding missions to South Africa, and they come back and say, 'The blacks we spoke to don't want withdrawal.' Naturally, the blacks they speak to don't want withdrawal, unless they swim to Robben Island and get through the prison bars and interview the real leaders...
Swathed in a velvet train, with the imperial crown carefully balanced on her coiffed brown hair, Queen Elizabeth II opened the final session of Parliament before her subjects vote again in a general election. In one of Britain's better pageants, the Queen spoke from a golden throne in the gilded House of Lords, surrounded by such royal functionaries as her Gold Stick in Waiting and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. So many ermined peers and bejeweled peeresses were present that a journalistic wag observed there was a "tiara boom today...
...reputation as a researcher and writer grew; T.S. Eliot sought his articles on Marxism, presented with a historian's detachment; W.H. Auden befriended him. By the '50s he was famous. Today Rowse laces his conversation with recollections of the mighty: "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt spoke much clearer English than Winston, who had a speech impediment as a child and always lisped somewhat...
...Tuesday, Harlan spoke with Carvalho who told him, "I am treated the same as a Soviet dissident and what is happening to me is absolutely illegal." Carvalho will continue to fight until Friday and hopes that everyone will help him, Harlan said...