Designed in the late 1990s expressly for pre-schoolers – and modelled on then-cutting-edge speech development theory – they quickly found themselves being adopted by bored university students and recovering clubbers.
Mr. Santorum promised to give a hard-edged speech linking Mitt Romney's health care plan to Mr. Obama's on Wednesday in Nevada.
Mr. Santorum promised to give a hard-edged speech linking Mr. Romney's health care plan to Mr. Obama's on Wednesday in Nevada.
On Monday, however, the sentimentality and girlishness were gone as she gave a sharp-edged speech casting herself as a pol of proven dynamism in a field of pandering lightweights.
He loved the terse form and double-edged speech of blues singers ("their sadness is not softened by tears but hardened by laughter," he said), and he packed jazz rhythms into his varied carols of black life.
Except for tonight's gibes and Wednesday night's hard-edged speech by Dick Cheney, his running mate, Mr. Bush and his party have tried all week to avoid the kind of sniping -- to say nothing of the internal bickering -- they know the American electorate detests.
Rowling writes in the novel that "for a moment Harry had the strangest feeling that she wanted to say something to him: she gave him an odd, tremulous look and seemed to teeter on the edge of speech, but then, with a little jerk of her head, she bustled out of the room after her husband and son".
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi rejected an ultimatum in an angry speech Tuesday night as Egypt edged closer to a return to military rule.
But in the 10 p.m. hour, when the major speeches took place, MSNBC, with 1.85 million viewers, edged Fox News, which had 1.84 million.
Stocks edged higher on Wednesday in the lightest trading of the year as investors waited for an important speech by the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, on Friday.
He was edged out by Michael Steele at the end but this is another example of stupidity, racism and hate speech coming from the top.
