Word: spokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Watson spoke for Stuart Eizenstat, assistant to the president for domestic affairs, who cancelled his appearance early this morning in order to help draft an anti-inflation speech which Carter will give tomorrow...
...Soweto, South African black teen-agers refused to talk in public, fearful of police retribution. Instead, they climbed on the bus that carried the visiting Americans and, standing in the aisle, spoke haltingly of their struggle for civil rights. Two days later, in an empty Port Elizabeth nightclub, with purple curtains and pedestals of flowers as a backdrop, South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster met with the same group to argue the cause of apartheid...
...Africa for the Middle East, the tour landed in Saudi Arabia for a session with Crown Prince Fahd at his working palace in Riyadh. Sipping bitter cardamom tea, the de facto head of state stressed his country's role as a moderating influence in the Arab world and spoke of its long friendship with the U.S. But the Prince left little doubt that the friendship would be reappraised if Congress denied the Saudis the F-15 fighter-bombers that he claims to need for national defense...
...short, are more numerous than ever in the nation's history, and in many ways more powerful. Their increase in density, however, has not been accompanied by a proportionate increase in mass affection. To be sure, lawyers have never been terribly popular, particularly among philosophers and writers. Plato spoke of their "small and unrighteous" souls, and Keats said: "I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters." Thomas More left lawyers out of his Utopia, and Shakespeare made his feelings known in that famous line from Henry VI, Part II: "The first thing...
...brothers only Isaac was a bore. Simon bought his way into the Senate, where as a Republican from Colorado he spoke against "cheap Spanish lead and also the Australian lead." Benjamin, the charming rake, went down on the Titanic, changing into evening clothes for the event. William, another wastrel, named the principal rooms in his house after the metals on which his fortune was based; the Salon d'Or was reserved for love. Solomon, who kept a suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, gave the doorman $1,000 tips so that he could keep his Fierce-Arrow parked...