Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, correspondents crowded about Prochazka in the lobby. Did he and the President discuss the Oatis case? Said Prochazka: "No comment." Did they shake hands? "Yes, of course," said Prochazka. "What do you mean...
Throughout his career Dizzy wrote novels. In those days, novel writing was not considered the respectable, sedentary occupation it has become today: in a politician it seemed to suggest a temperament highly mercurial and unstatesmanlike as compared, for instance, with that of Lord Derby, who once refused to discuss the progress of the Crimean War because he "was translating Homer and did not wish to talk politics." Moreover...
...discuss in your July 23 issue the presence and absence of Washington's dentures in Gilbert Stuart portraits of that famous statesman. To settle an argument, please let me know what Washington's dentures were really made...
...Kaesong, the Reds trotted out their moth-eaten demands for a buffer zone along the 38th parallel, as if they were brand-new. Admiral Joy made it clear that his side still insisted on a more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since...
...Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...