Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companions. So they started inventing crazy things to do. For several weeks, they went to mixers and parties together and pretended they were from Wellesley. When they tired of that game, they would dress identically and outrageously, dripping with makeup and glitter. They appeared loftily bizarre and danced and spoke only to one another. The women planned their escapades as a silly diversion but when they recognized them as a vapid defense, they resumed their old routine and suffered through the parties, always aware of their status as unattached Radcliffe women...
...senior adviser who originally spoke with Smith took the call. Because Smith could only be reached through the post office box, the adviser did not know where to begin. He remembered Smith's friend, over at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols and gave the teacher a call. The adviser asked the teacher: "Hey, do you know how I can get a hold of that Harvard student, Joe Smith, that you drive to school each...
SHORTLY BEFORE the Chilean army burst into Santiago's Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973 and overthrew the popularly-elected left-wing government, President Salvadore Allende spoke on national radio to the workers and peasants who supported him. "Workers of my country," he said, "I have faith in Chile and her destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seems to dominate. You must never forget that sooner or later grand avenues will be opened where free men will march on to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live...
...domestic reaction, especially after the Kent State shootings. Kissinger, said Nixon, told him that Cambodia "could have been a mistake. And I said, 'Henry, we've done it.' I said, 'Remember Lot's wife. Never look back.' " Frost asked Nixon whether Kissinger ever spoke of resigning. Nixon remembered "perhaps half a dozen times...
France's birth) and the third (on its destiny) are still to come. And Braudel, although robust, fears that he will never finish them. He is doubly sad at that prospect because people "flocked" to hear him lecture about France. "Instead of telling the story chronologically. I spoke about what is France, what is French society," reminisces Braudel. "What the French Revolution was; ah, what a subject that was. I could hear a butterfly fly when I spoke of that...