Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after all, Frank Merriwell and not Superman. He gets hungry. 'Boys,' he proclaimed after a pleasant chat, 'I must...
...cutting and simplifying Plato's far-from-Basic Greek, the Dialogues have been brought over into something very like Basic English. Last week, Bostonians tuning in on a chat between Socrates and Adeimantus On Tyranny (The Republic, Book VIII) might have thought they were hearing a couple of Harvard scholars fogging their horn-rimmed glasses with deep sighs over current world events. Excerpt...
...others filed out, and Secretary Marshall stayed behind for a 45-minute chat with the President. Then he walked over to the State Department, where Jimmy Byrnes was waiting. Over a lunch of oyster soup, lamb, and mince pie at Blair House, he listened to his predecessor's quick outline of what he was getting into. Back at the State Department, Marshall picked up the top-secret statements of U.S. policy on each country of the world. Then, for three quarters of an hour, he submitted patiently to the traditional ordeal by camera. At 4 p.m., he drove...
Foreign Minister José Vincente Trujillo had a wonderful time in the U.S.A. First he took a wife: 33-year-old Mary Louise Wellensiek of Pomona, Calif., whom he had met about a year ago at a presidential reception in Quito. Then he had a friendly chat with Harry Truman, came away impressed by the President's "grasp of modern and ancient Ecuadorian history." Finally last week, as his North American honeymoon ended, Trujillo announced that he had wangled two $4 million loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to complete modernization of the water systems of Ecuador...
Latest among AVC proposed aids to the student-veteran is a plan calling for the Veterans Administration to adopt a new decentralized system, similar to the Army's payroll setup which would bring about more prompt payment of subsistence allowances. Chat Patterson. AVC national legislative representative. has recommended that a qualified disbursing officer be appointed to make payments of allowances directly to student-veterans...