Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing hours, Louisiana's 57-year-old Allen Ellender hung up a filibuster record by mumbling for twelve hours 20 minutes, the longest time any Senator had ever talked without relief. "I underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the pride of a gabby flagpole-sitter. He refueled himself during his performance with nothing more than two glasses of water, one glass of orange juice, seven chocolate bars and a few tablets for his throat...
Britain's Ernest Bevin spoke with fervor and measured hope: "We have today embarked on a great adventure ... a most famous historical undertaking . . . This new [North Atlantic] pact brings us under a wider roof of security ... It is certainly one of the greatest steps toward world peace ... a new era of cooperation and understanding...
...What We Wanted. France's Robert Schuman spoke with vigor and firmness: "Today we obtain what we hoped for vainly between the two wars. The United States recognizes there can be no peace nor security for America if Europe is in danger...
...Robert D. Kilmarx heard the noises and came out of his room across the hall. He told the men to get out, and they did, not knowing that Cirrotta might have been severely injured. Kilmarx spoke to Cirrotta, who was washing his face, and returned to his room to study...
...penance as they will, they can neither undo their crime nor heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...