Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welker-were begging for more Nixon time and effort. Ohio's U.S. Senator George Bender happily grabbed Nixon's coattails, crying, "Ohio loves Dick Nixon." It seemed to. At Defiance a crowd equal to a third of the town's population (12,500) turned out to hear him; in Warren more than 30,000 people lined the streets to cheer. The crowds and the confidence were growing...
...French refueling stop, at Majorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, to avoid putting down in Algeria. In the air the first directive crackled from Algeria: "Refuel at Palma and then proceed to Algiers." Since French delicacy dictated that the Sultan should be among the first to hear that his hospitality was being violated, Pilot Grellier was also told to radio his new destination back to Rabat. Seeing the report, the Moroccan Minister of Works cried, "This is pure piracy," and ordered instructions sent to Pilot Grellier to wait at Majorca until further notice. The plane was on the ground...
...modern young reporter does with all his leisure: "I get the impression from the modern reporter that he doesn't really like his work. He wishes he were a druggist. The idea of a newspaper reporter with any self-respect playing golf is to me almost inconceivable. I hear that even printers now play golf. God Almighty, that's dreadful to think of." Other Mencken shafts...
...main supply-and-demand argument against restricting imports, however, is the fact that domestic oilfields will not be able to keep up with rising U.S. needs under any circumstances. Says Otis H. Ellis, general counsel of the National Oil Jobbers Council: "We constantly hear that 'there is no security in foreign oil. A more appropriate slogan would be,"There is no security without foreign oil." " With one-seventh of the world's crude-oil reserves, the U.S. consumes 9,000,000 bbls. of oil daily, well over 50% of the world's production. The Chase Manhattan Bank...
...Dulles seems partially to have realized this. He has stood for U.N. action and aid only on demand. But, his foreign policy would be vastly improved if he would not also imply that Russia's weakness is America's strength. For the rest of the world wants only to hear that Russia's weakness is Russia's weakness...