Word: spokes
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...President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Four years later, President Johnson named him Solicitor General--the government's top Supreme Court lawyer--and in 1967 Johnson spoke of "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place" and named Marshall to the Supreme Court...
...Republic of Macedonia). When she was seven, her father was murdered. Bojaxhiu chose emigration over political activism and at the age of 18 entered the Sisters of Loreto's convent in Ireland as a novice. The Sisters of Loreto, a teaching order, sent her to Bengal in 1929. She spoke broken English and had yet to take her first vows...
...Robinson. It was the spring of 1948, the year after Jackie changed my life by breaking baseball's color line. His team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, made a stop in my hometown of Mobile, Ala., while barnstorming its way north to start the season, and while he was there, Jackie spoke to a big crowd of black folks over on Davis Avenue. I think he talked about segregation, but I didn't hear a word that came out of his mouth. Jackie Robinson was such a hero to me that I couldn't do anything but gawk...
...February rally, only one faculty member spoke, Harvard Law School Professor of General Jurisprudence Duncan M. Carter, who Bartley had personally approached to ask for support...
...December 1996 with the stock market soaring to record highs, Greenspan spoke at a Washington dinner party, wondering aloud if the flow of money into the stock market was simply "irrational exuberance...