Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Menzies may eloquently summarize the new Australian vigor, but the national motivation of which you speak comes directly from those dinkum "blokes, coves and coots" who see a job to be done and are quietly going about doing it, fortified by a slightly irreverent bush spirit and the best bloody beer in the world...
Through the years Johnson has gathered a formidable array of loyalists around him-such divergent Senators as Georgia's rigidly conservative Dick Russell and Montana's liberal Mike Mansfield are outspoken in their admiration. Says Mansfield: "The Senate is the cockpit, so to speak. From here comes our next President. And who is the leader of the Senate?" Johnson has just two consistent Senate critics-Pennsylvania's Clark and Illinois' Douglas-and one consistent problem child-Oregon's Wayne Morse...
...cocktail lounges of Durban were crowded with holidaying Transvaalers oblivious of the violence on the city's outskirts, and in bustling Johannesburg, business went on much as usual. But even among the whites, opposition to Verwoerd's policies was growing. For the first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies -or else." Peter Mosenthal, a textile manufacturer who is president of the Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce, declared: "The time...
...difficulty in identifying the letters bearing his name but not written by him.The words come in a rush, broken by frequent parenthetical asides, but though he was not trying to, he produced some of the most exalted passages in all Christian literature, e.g. (I Corinthians 13): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...
...graves of his family, Donner is swept away by memories. In his fevered imagination, his boyhood Unionville exists again. He walks the streets, peers into houses, recognizes old friends and acquaintances. He even visits his father's store, and there an old confusion leaves him helpless to speak his feelings. Like many a boy, he had never been able to bridge the distance between himself and his father. Now, as he relives the situation as an old man, the gap seems hardly narrowed. Was his father his enemy, or was he what he seemed to the rest...