Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight across the southern border, diehard resistance at home, or a deal with the Communist invaders...
...crusader or a fanatic. Others have complained that he was neither a philosopher nor a political thinker of any substance. Shaw's great vanity as an artist-and he was an artist above all-enabled him to agree with double-edged modesty with his critics. He often spoke, truly, of his poor education. He observed with real humility the learning and the passion of the Webbs, whom he worshipped. It was a kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because (if it can be put this way) brilliance and genius were...
...friendless, but he was manifestly apart from his friends, a lonely figure with bright eyes and ceaseless tongue, going for walks. The handwriting was still firm and bold and beautifully formed on the famous postcards; the soft and beautiful voice was still firm and ready when he spoke on the telephone. His mind was still large and showed only the normal sense of persecution felt by those in contemporary England who have been relieved of so much of their property by the State. With the shrewdness of an afflicted banker he protested against the threat of capital levy. Like Samuel...
This may seem to be a minor point, and we hate to bring it out in print. However, it's about time that somebody spoke up and said something about it. It certainly doesn't speak well of the class as a whole if they can't sing the Red and Blue properly. After all the Red and Blue is THE song of our alma mater, and if they can't sing it right, they may as well quit. from the Daily Pennsylvanian...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry spoke before an enthusiastic audience of 800 in New Lecture Hall...