Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were there on a summons from Presidential Adviser John Steelman, who had warned them: "This isn't a social visit. This is it." Precisely at 10 o'clock, Murray and Fairless were ushered into the President's oval study. Harry Truman greeted them curtly, then coldly rattled off top-secret statistics to prove that the U.S. was being crippled by the biggest steel strike in its history. Said the President, turning to Fairless: "You can settle this thing, Ben, and you've got to settle it. I want it settled by tomorrow morning...
...entitled to (even before the wage boost) under the Capehart amendment. Said Arnall: This "definitely and completely repudiates, withdraws or reverses" any previous Government promise to the industry. To newsmen, trying to keep up with the giddy on-again, off-again Government offers, Arnall said: "It is rather confusing, isn...
...only recently in South Africa's supreme court he won $9,000 damages from a Nationalist newspaper which alleged that he was a "concealed Communist." Said the influential Johannesburg Star: "Sachs must be the only person in the country to have a supreme-court ruling that he isn't a Communist...
...priests, says Don Ardito. "Compromise, moderation, restrained zeal, a constant effort to be 'human' and please the general public, all these mixed in with personal greed and jealousy-isn't that the portrait of the average priest? . . . How many of us priests ... act as if the truth we preach were a spiritual reality, not a mere symbol...
...Manhattan, asked whether she approved of a woman running for the presidency, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, replied: "I know I wouldn't want a woman captain of a ship I was on." Her second thought: "Now isn't that a dreadful thing for a woman minister...