Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before an audience of 12,500, Carter spoke for half an hour with obvious intensity and feeling. Said one listener afterward: "This is either a very important speech or a prayer." Carter plainly regarded it as most important; he had spent the better part of two days rewriting and polishing earlier drafts...
...Marshall's audience knew before he spoke, the Secretary of State would merely add his bit to the usual commencement pieties. No ballyhoo had preceded him; no Washington flacks had scurried about alerting the press that a "major" statement would be forthcoming. In fact, say some who were there, neither Marshall's typically spare language nor his earnest but dry delivery awakened that gathering fully to a realization that here history was being made...
...talks got under way, with the two sides seated at separate but equal tables, the atmosphere became tense-and remained so. At times, strident voices could be heard through the closed doors. Said one American official later: "Vorster's expression never changed, nor did his tone." Mondale spoke of American efforts to reduce discrimination and of the resulting benefits to the nation. The South Africans spoke of their 300-year history in Africa and, at one point, taunted the U.S. delegation about the slaughter of American Indians in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the end of the first...
...little girl named Iris Reigle spoke those words at the end of a prayer meeting at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Shamokin, Pa. The 25 worshipers looked at the white brocade cloth covering the altar tabernacle where consecrated bread is kept. On the cloth, in use for. 15 years, they now saw a pattern of shadows that seemed to them to resemble the face of Jesus. "We called some of our friends and told them they had to come immediately," recalls Housewife Violet Burrows. "We were afraid it would go away...
...evidence seemed highly questionable. One item was a photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included a warning that the company...