Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preserved only a few of these speeches, but from the few which remain, their themes are easily recognizable. In 1940, a time when most Americans were still enjoying the liberties of post-World War I isolation one-and-a-half years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tudor Gardiner spoke about the dangers of peacetime, and American security...
Fred Ross, a California labor organizer, spoke yesterday at Andover Hall in the Divinity School on the efforts of migrant farm workers to organize an effective union...
Most striking, Carter on Monday night spoke in somber Churchillian tones of sacrifices for everybody-but by week's end the White House indicated the sacrifices would not be financial, and indeed the program would save consumers money. A statement issued Friday night contended that without the program the average family's energy bill in 1985 would be $1,367; Carter's proposals would cut that figure 16%, to $1,145. That contention is highly debatable: it assumes that conversion to coal would free "old" and inexpensive natural gas now burned by industry to flow to homeowners...
...former University of Texas economist spoke informally to a group of college journalists in the Kennedy Building in downtown Boston...
Smoking a marijuana cigarette and taking periodic sips from a glass of whiskey, Thompson spoke rapidly as he answered questions for an hour and a half in front of what he described as a "seething rabble." Over 200 people were turned away from the door, and the speech was held up for 20 minutes while technicians wired sound for those left outside...