Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church recreation centers, take youngsters on trips to beaches, museums, ball games, or on hikes and camping trips. When they find that their charges belong to a street gang, they often try to organize handicraft classes or canteens for the whole gang. They continually call on parents to discuss the problems of the children they work with...
...ducking judgments delivered by newspaper critics could be valid: "The only compositions which will bear thinking of for more than half an hour are those which require an intimate acquaintance for at least ten years for their critical mastery." Critic Shaw followed a simple but infinitely cunning line: he discussed music not as an art but as a grave moral problem, studied musicians precisely as a social reformer studies dangerous delinquents. A bad performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni seemed every bit as wicked to Shaw as a real-life Don Juan seems to a headmistress. "I hate performers...
...admire your honest and sensible review. The subject of dogs, at least here on Long Island, seems to be in the category of politics and religion. One does not discuss...
...panning across the world, the diplomatic eyes of the U.S. shifted to the Far East. Amid the waning echoes of the Big Four conference at Geneva, a simultaneous announcement crackled out of Washington and Peking: ambassadors of the U.S. and Communist China would meet this week in Geneva to discuss "the matter of repatriation of civilians* who desire to return to their respective countries [and to] ... facilitate further discussions and settlement of certain other practical matters...
Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...