Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...green, wooded valley, many speakers spoke many ringing words, but to these the Scouts paid little heed. They stood lackadaisically in formation, answered commands with a muffled "Get a load of Big Shot" or "Boy, are you a brain." It was more fun pitching tents, roasting 25 miles of frankfurters, getting sunburned, sending home 3,000 wires a day and-most of all-poking fun at and bartering with each other...
After four hours, a chief spoke up. "Well, Barnes, goddammit," he said, "it looks like you've got just what us birds up here need." For $10,000 Barnes agreed to spray the clouds, with silver-iodide particles for three months...
...critics were less spontaneous: they wrote columns about "influences" they thought they saw in Grandma Moses' 50 oils (which owe their greatest debt to the prints of Currier & Ives). One critic spoke of Renoir and the "early moderns"; a second of Flemish miniatures and Bruegel's landscapes. Anyway, said another, "there's something [in Grandma Moses] for everyone to enjoy, whatever their approach...
Last week the television industry looked up from its crystal ball and spoke of the future in big, bold terms...
...ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether they would resist any attempt against their virtue...