Word: spokes
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...church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, like many other churches, did not have a moral beginning. It spoke out against gay marriage in Hawaii in 1998 and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and '80s. Just recently it marshaled its forces to vote against gay marriage in California. Gays are furious about this as they should be. The Mormons contributed half of the $40 million war chest to defeat gay rights. The U.S. Constitution, a great improvement on holy books, not only provides for separation of church and state but also provides for evolving morality. It finally...
...Winston Churchill who once enjoined an audience to "never give in; never, never, never give in," and he knew whereof he spoke. Churchill spent the 1930s in the political wilderness, warning of the need to rearm against the Nazi threat, and was treated as a bit of a joke by smaller...
...father-son duo I came across, David and Nick Pearson, spoke to the weeding out a mediocre season like this one accomplishes...
...Trevor Timmons, the Director of Player Recruitment for the Habs, spoke into microphone on June 26, the crowd fell silent. Then Leblanc’s name came out of Timmons’ mouth, and the audience erupted into applause and cheers. “Louis, Louis, Louis,” boomed through the arena. It was the first time since 1988 that Montreal had drafted a Quebecois skater in the first round...
...school Stuyvesant, where he was a legend as a compelling teacher. "George Bernard Shaw said those that can do, and those that can't teach," McCourt was fond of observing. "Just goes to show that Shaw didn't know his arse from his elbow about teaching." Although he often spoke of a novel in progress, it has never been published. (See Richard Corliss's review of the movie version of Angela's Ashes...