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`` Senator '', said an interviewer, `` your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ''.
In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.
In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:
After Elihu's speech ends with the last verse of Chapter 37, God appears and in the second verse of Chapter 38, God says, speaking of Job: “ Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
A clitic syntactically functions above the word level, on the phrase or clause level, and attaches only phonetically to the first, last, or only word in the phrase or clause, whichever part of speech the word belongs to.
On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
But I do not delude myself that this state of affairs is going to last forever ... the only régime which, in the long run, will dare to permit freedom of speech is a Socialist régime.
Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.
Unfortunately, the amount of speech that could be compressed into a 4K or 8K ROM cartridge was limited, and the system did not sell as well as Mattel had hoped ; while the initial orders were as high as 300, 000 units for the Intellivoice module and its initial game-cartridge offerings, interest in future titles dropped rapidly until the fourth and last Intellivoice title, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold a mere 90, 000 units.
Wilson canvassed the country to generate support for the treaty and the league, but his health was failing, and he gave his last speech on the subject on 25 September 1919.
During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.
On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.
We may see similar height, weight, eye color, hair, nose, mouth, patterns of speech, social or political views, mannerisms, body structure, last names, etc.
Robert West, a pioneer of genetic studies in stuttering, has suggested that the presence of stuttering is connected to the fact that articulated speech is the last major acquisition in human evolution.
That last part of Sojourner ’ s speech brings in her main focus.
Substantial efforts have been devoted in the last decade to the test and evaluation of speech recognition in fighter aircraft.
Also on that day he gave his last speech to the House of Commons.
In 1896, in his last noteworthy speech, he denounced Armenian massacres by Ottomans in a talk delivered at Liverpool.
** Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ).
In his concession speech, he states that this is his " last press conference " and that " you don't have Nixon to kick around any more ".
Sometimes they may also say " ee-sa " because the final " t " in her name was a feminine suffix, which is known to have been dropped in speech during the last stages of the Egyptian language.
After Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988 and her increasing hostility to a European currency in the last years of her premiership, Powell made many speeches publicly supporting her attitude to Europe.
The last person recognized as the bodily reincarnation of Ngawang Namgyal died in the mid-eighteenth century, but speech and mind reincarnations, embodied by individuals who acceded to the position of Shabdrung, were recognized into the early twentieth century.
In perhaps the last important parliamentary intervention of his career, which occurred during the crucial Norway Debate of May 1940, Lloyd George made a powerful speech that helped to undermine Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister and to pave the way for the ascendancy of Churchill as Premier.
On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.

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Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.
At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.
Transylvania Symphony Conductor Pfohl said yesterday that Mrs. Kennedy's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, told about plans for White House youth concerts before the National Symphony Orchestra League in Philadelphia last spring.
As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.
Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.
She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.
23: 6 ) and the last of Eli's House.
A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.
* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".
Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.
* The Shootist – John Wayne ’ s last film that was shot on location at the Krebbs-Peterson House
The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
In Dresden on 18 June 1853 Albert married Princess Carola, daughter of Gustav, Prince of Vasa and granddaughter of Gustav IV Adolf, the second to last king of Sweden of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.
* St. Eloy's Hospice, the last Guild House in Utrecht, Netherlands
* St. Eloy's Hospice The last Guild House in Utrecht, Netherlands
As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.
He was the last of the older Franconia line of the House of Hohenzollern.
Anne was the last monarch of the House of Stuart.
A succession crisis following the death of the last Capetian monarch in 1337 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years ' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet.
For some two centuries, the monarchy was elective both in theory and in practice ; the arrangement, however, did not last, since the powerful House of Habsburg managed to secure succession within their dynasty during the fifteenth century.
In 1979, he entered the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California for several weeks before moving with his last wife, Maria, to Acapulco, Mexico, the location of his last Tarzan movie.
On March 21, 1854, as a delaying tactic in the House of Representatives, the legislation was referred by a vote of 110 to 95 to the Committee of the Whole, where it was the last item on the calendar.
When they last reigned they were called the Royal House of Yugoslavia.

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