Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trappers spoke of smoking hills, springs that spewed torrents of boiling mud and water, and cliffs of black glass. In 1870 Washburn and Hedges decided to have a look for themselves. What they saw so impressed them that they decided the region had to be preserved. On March 1, 1872, legislation establishing the 2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park-first in the country and the world-was signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. Now the National Park Service, created in 1916, administers a 31-million-acre empire likely to double in size once Congress acts to acquire additional parkland...
After the service. Cousin Hugh spoke harshly about the people running Plains Baptist. He described them as "anti-Carter, anti-black and full of hate." A woman who played piano for the Bottsford service was more benign. Said she: "I have no animosity toward anyone in the other church. I pray for them, and I pray...
...like?and of the life he led ?just before his escape. He was dressed in prison blues and a gold windbreaker, and he looked fine, she recalls, "much better than his old pictures, and with good color in his face." His voice was high-pitched, and he spoke in short, broken sentences. His grammar was bad, but his mind was "clever and cunning." Ray rarely gestured, showed absolutely no sense of humor and projected the air of being a loner. He started out sitting next to his latest attorney, Jack Kershaw of Nashville, but gradually inched away during...
...uncertain about what an Ecevit government will mean for still strained Turkish-U.S. relations. Meeting newsmen last week, Ecevit warned that the continuation of a Congress-imposed embargo on military aid to Turkey will have "certain inevitable impacts on [our] contribution to the collective security system." He spoke vaguely of forming a new "national defense concept" that "need not be in conflict with our membership in NATO." Ecevit did not spell it out, but he seemed to be indicating that Turkey could play a lesser military role in NATO and could reduce its dependence on U.S. arms by shopping...
...forces driving the movement is a growing distrust of doctors. The onslaught caught many medical associations by surprise. Convinced that the Massachusetts bill would die quickly, the state chapter of the American Cancer Society did not even bother to testify at a hearing on the proposal. Only a dietitian spoke against the bill at a hearing in Arizona. Medical societies in Oregon and Louisiana ducked the issue...