Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informal in Detroit's auto industry. Romney often leaves his modest office (18 ft. by 18 ft.) to drop in on executives down the corridor. When he has anything important to say, he is not above calling them together, sitting down on the back of a chair to give a talk...
...shoulder as his desk. When the British Broadcasting Corp. recently asked him to take part in a small-car panel, and submitted a list of ten questions beforehand, Romney summoned an aide. The aide began briefing him, but Romney cut him short. "Never mind the answers," he said. "Just give me the questions...
...things in Wolfe's fictional chronicle are intriguing in human terms. One is the sense of Trotsky-Rostov's real devotion to his wife. The other is his personal gentleness and charm. He kept pet rabbits (one was called George Sand), which had been bought to give the household its own supply of meat, but which, when it came to the point, the author of The Defense of Terrorism could not bear to have killed...
Last week Castro said the purpose of his visit was to ask the American government to give Cuba economic assistance and to raise the quota on imports of Cuban sugar...
...seminar for science news writers held last week at Harvard and M.I.T. was termed successful by Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships and head of the seminar. About 50 magazine and newspaper reporters attended the three-day meeting, designed to give them a background for modern science reporting...