Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted for Democrat Johnson. Said he: "I voted Republican last year. I liked Eisenhower's speeches and promises then. There was that Korean mess, and Ike said he could finish it-and he did. I thought he could do something about farm prices, too, but he hasn't yet, and times are getting tougher .. . Two weeks ago I shipped two cows . . . One cow brought me $90 and the other $120.80 . . . That's $210 for two cows. Why, under Truman, you got that much...
...flocking overnight to pick up the tabs, but he hopes to convince enough of them that radio has a vast audience (including the motorized public) that television does not touch. "I don't expect to get anyone to turn off TV," he says. "My concern is that radio hasn't done anything to make people responsive to it. We expect to be the most aggressive radio network, and we think it will help all of radio, by making everyone more competitive, and forcing them to put on better shows...
...just in the shop, and it hasn't been the same since." Solution: "You must sell the customer the idea that her set is operating O.K. Be firm, but be tactful...
...William Wyler] who asserts that "that girl is going to be the biggest star in Hollywood" . . . When you come to think that Jean Simmons was only 18 when she gave her brilliant performance in Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, you start wondering whether [24-year-old] Miss Hepburn hasn't started too late . . . Her soulful looks will take her far. She's pretty . . . But I'd like to see her future work way over par before taking...
...member of the armed services, I am faced, for the first time in my life, with a group of men who are near illiterates. They do not read to enlighten themselves, or to inform, or even to entertain. If it hasn't got pictures, most of them are stuck. What is the result? In a first-class bureaucracy like the modern army or navy or air force, with its myriad regulations which one must be able to interpret and analyze to get along, we have boys who do not know what they are doing, or why, and never will...