Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Hemisphere where it would do the most good. The conference was so successful that TLI Director Edgar Baker began at once to plan a meeting focused on another geographical area. On a trip to Asia to test the idea on businessmen and bankers there, Baker found widespread interest...
...spinning started even before the Senate confirmed him. Clashing head-on with conflict-of-interest laws ("If I had come here to cheat, by God, I wouldn't be here"), Engine Charlie battled the Senate Armed Services Committee for ten days before agreeing to sell his General Motors stock (39,470 shares then worth $2,500,000; current market value: $4,500,000). It was from word leaked out of the secret Senate confirmation hearings that Wilson reaped headlines and outraged diatribes for one of the most famous remarks never made: "What's good for General Motors...
...Post Office deficit (Congress balked at the postal-rate increases the Administration asked for) that will top the January budget estimate by $600 million. ¶ Rising interest rates that could up the cost of carrying the national debt by $500 million...
Lena Horne, excellent in and by herself, does not act well enough to carry interest into the plot. She sings as well as ever, particularly in "Push The Button," a satirical comment on Manhattan (there's a little island on the Hudson. . .), "Ain't It The Truth," and "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today." She can ride one word onto several notes as perfectly as she can move her body provocatively. Unfortunately, she has trouble weaving in and out of a Jamaica accent, often waiting to lean into Caribbean pronunciation and rhythm until just before...
...sake is fine, but if a writer is going to have any lasting value and interest, he must have something to say. He must have had to think during the course of his life. If a person is exposed to the values of conflicting cultures, he is forced to reexamine his ideas and decide either to reject, accept, or modify his previous values. If one rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values...