Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nonsense. If the words & music had made Jo Stafford's pulse miss a beat, it was not noticeable in her singing or bearing. For her, music is strictly busi ness, her voice a valuable property to be used whenever there is a demand. "I'd no more think of saying 'I can't sing today because I don't feel like it' than an accountant would look up from his figures and say he couldn't add any more because he wasn't in the mood...
...British jets, he added, have "a limited demand." But "we must draw a clear distinction between the supplemental operation of jet transports [with piston ships] as compared to the real objective which all of us are now aiming for, namely a type of jet air transport ... for complete fleet replacement...
...members who have willingly donated to the Democratic club because it stands for the Democratic Party's policies; they have slapped the members twice in the face by committing one illegal and another irresponsible art. The HYDC cannot supinely withdraw from these assaults. The clubs' officers at least should demand that these mavericks reimburse the club for the spent money and offer formal apologies to Governor Dever...
...idea came to the Hahnemann surgeons after years of working on an artificial heart-lung machine. They could not get it to do the whole job of carrying a patient's circulation and oxygenating his blood. They reasoned that if they could cut down the body's demand for blood by lowering its temperature, the machine might be adequate. Then it dawned on them: perhaps the low temperature alone would do the trick, without the machine...
During the four years he coached at Yale (his record: 16 wins, 18 losses, 2 ties), Hickman was in great demand as an after-dinner speaker. He claims to have made more money speaking than coaching ("between $12,000 and $15,000 a year...