Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week the Communist dictator in Belgrade was all soothing reasonableness; history and heresy had turned him round. In a major address before his new Parliament, Tito spoke "with sorrow" of his continued excommunication by former comrades in the Kremlin and the Cominform. Then, urging "good neighbor relations and closer cooperation," he made a tactical overture to the West...
...noted advocate of world government, Meyer spoke before an overflow crowd in Sever 11 last fall. He is a former president of the United World Federalists and the author of several widely quoted and influential books on his theories of government...
...talk about food in the U.S., by an Austrian woman who had married a G.I. She spoke lyrically of the cosmopolitan variety of the U.S. menu ("Goulash, Wiener Schnitzel, stuffed peppers, Linzer tart . . ."), and made an announcement that might start a major revolution in Vienna: "I frequently make Apfelstrudel, but I don't have to knead the dough myself-I buy it all ready. Or better still, I buy the whole Apfelstrudel...
...strode briskly into a crowded House of Commons one afternoon last week to read the Labor government's budget for 1950-51. Boyishly, Cripps slapped his battered red leather dispatch case onto the table, grinned as he began a long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads were nodding. Winston Churchill fidgeted fretfully, first...
...deadline drew nearer, some California professors got ready to take their cases to court; others began casting about for new jobs. Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago spoke up, urged that professors all over the country chip in 2% of their salaries to aid California colleagues until they landed new positions...