Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply shocked by Dr. Vance Chat-tin's attitude ... his "heroic" attempts to save the life of a creature that can be described as a monster, makes me doubt in his and his colleagues' sanity...
...Fatherly Chat. The huge British Electricity Authority, which employs the vast majority of the electricians in Britain's power plants, recently agreed to give the union a pay increase. But the private electrical contractors balked. They offered to arbitrate, but the union's President Foulkes refused. He announced a policy of ''guerrilla" strikes-one-day surprise strikes throughout the country. One local working on a steel plant at Scunthorpe rebelled. Foulkes hustled right up there "just to have a fatherly chat." Grumbled one of the workers: "We talked for half an hour about democracy. Then Frank...
Showman Billy (Aquacade) Rose, whose estranged wife Eleanor Holm Rose locked him out of their Manhattan town house more than a year ago, showed up at the place recently, was admitted by Eleanor and sat down with her in the kitchen for a cozy chat over some coffee. In the shared cups they found grounds for a divorce settlement, which the courts and their lawyers had been unable to work out in a two-year tug of war. Provided one of them divorces the other by April 10, Eleanor will go on swimming in the kind of money to which...
...presidential fireside chat is not an institution in France; but Vincent Auriol, impelled by the gravity of the hour, took to the radio last week with a few cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend...
...Miami, where both were vacationing, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had a cordial chat over medium-rare steaks in a local bar, also adjourned to Nixon's private villa for a New Year's toast...