Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayor of Cambridge Sheila Doyle Russell spoke of the need to fight hunger around the world in order to achieve "full realization of humanity's potential." Robinson will bolster the fight against hunger when she assumes her new post as United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Russell said...
...Weld aides--who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity--said Weld will likely resign from the governorship as soon as his name is submitted to the Senate for confirmation...
...Main Street parades and the hot dog cookouts and three-legged races stopped cold. Five hours later, televised pictures emerged depicting a rust-colored desert with rust-colored rocks and a distant hill against a gray-brown sky. The scenery was boring, the excitement overwhelming. People on TV spoke of how great and adventurous America is, how like a Pathfinder--a nation of explorers and pioneers. But the feeling of the moment went way beyond July 4 flag waving. Here was Earth's dominant species sailing out into the wilderness again, and what did it discover? Itself, again...
...part of his passing," says Kim Novak, the object of his obsession in Vertigo, "is that there'll never be another Jimmy Stewart. He wasn't an actor; he was the real thing. But the sweet part is that he was ready to move on. The last time I spoke with him, about five weeks ago, I felt he had already left on another journey. He was in a peaceful place where he didn't want to know about earthly things. He was like a brave Indian warrior who knew it was time to move on and was facing...
...phone interview Tuesday, Dr. Samella W. Junior-Spence, now-retired principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School in Nashville, spoke of Stephens' "high moral character," nothing that he was a marvelous student, a caring sibling and a devoted friend...