Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week when the Soviet Foreign Office, on the eve of the Baghdad Pact meeting, cried that Turkey's acceptance of such missiles was likely to have "dangerous consequences," sturdy Adnan Menderes did not even bother to comment. Says one U.S. official, noting with rueful admiration that Turkey's 470,000-man army constitutes the biggest force contributed to NATO by any nation: "With most of our allies, the problem is to get them to build up to minimum strength. With the Turks, the problem is to get them to stop somewhere...
Langer declined to comment on which scholastic fields would be in greatest demand for exchange, but expressed the conviction that there were many areas in which Russians and Americans would have similar interests in sending and receiving personnel. Since there will be "such a large field from which to draw," Langer added, a degree of competency in Russian will probably be advantageous to applicants. This advantage will have no relation, however, to the field of study of the applicant...
Radcliffe officials were unavailable for comment on the Annex's part in the program, but Furcolo has appealed to all Massachusetts colleges for their cooperation in finding suitable delegates. The Governor does not require that the students be residents of Massachusetts for more than the school year...
...Waco, subscriptions soon deluged him in the currency of a dozen lands. The 16-page Iconoclast was a potpourri of flamboyant comment on all things, laced with spleen, belly laughs, erudition, ribaldry and scorpion satire. Often intemperate, rarely constructive, Brann could be-and was-accused of doing more harm than good. But it was hard to fault his eloquence. On the approaching marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty...
Occasionally Lehmann interrupted a singer with a general comment (she recalled Strauss's own advice to her: "Have the courage to stand still"), sometimes spoke delightedly of a favorite passage: "This is one of the wonderful moments that the conductor has to wait for the singer." Said one of her awed young pupils: "I have learned just by being near her. She must have been a fantastically great artist...