Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From London came an audible sigh. Moscow refrained from comment. Mr. Truman, extracted what comfort he could from the fact that he had acted, in the end, with respectable firmness; he had repaired the damage he had done to Byrnes's prestige. And now Henry Wallace could say what he liked and fight all he wanted for the policy which he espoused...
...press conference the President still had nothing to say, no announcements to make. Questions poured in from newsmen. The skidding stockmarket? The President was interested, of course. But he had no comment. The maritime strike? Still in the hands of the Department of Labor. A special session of Congress? The President didn't think there was any emergency that would require it; Congressmen were entitled to an uninterrupted spell of politicking...
...were encamped at Manhattan's swank Hotel Plaza, where they showed an avid liking for Western ways by wolfing filet mignons. Communication with them was practically impossible, since they were carefully shepherded away from reporters by their Soviet escort (and interpreter), one Captain V. Krivoshekov. Their only recorded comment: Paris was the most beautiful city they had ever seen, "but so old. In Ulan Bator [Outer Mongolia's capital], now, there is much building-something new popping up all the time...
Clearest-headed comment of all came from the usually clear-headed Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial titled "Dr. Newton Encounters Stalin on the Make." Excerpts...
...experts had yet to come back from Bikini; their studies had still to be tallied. But what they had learned was summed up last week in the heartfelt comment of Admiral William H. P. Blandy: "It's a poison weapon." He could have gone farther. The atomic age will be an age of poison. Even the peaceful use of atomic power will generate deadly rays and radioactive particles. How to guard against them is the first problem of the atomic...