Word: spokes
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...Bowen spent the past few weeks discussing their book in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Last Wednesday they spoke to various members of the Massachusetts' academic and political communities about their findings, Burkhart said...
...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
They looked. No one spoke. All but one would dive again...
...Speaker Finneran spoke up yet again, this time replacing hyperbole with that old Ciceronian stand-by, alliteration. The morning after the primary, at a Democratic "unity breakfast," he refused to endorse Harshbarger, voicing concerns about the candidate's liberal policies...
Lacking the fanfare that Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela enjoyed last week, Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong, nevertheless met a small but enthusiastic audience when he spoke yesterday afternoon in Science Center...