Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...
...consensus emerged from stirrings of opinion, no pat judgment that the U.S. is "soft." The U.S. knew that, save in wartime or other great crises (the Depression), national purpose cannot always be precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a sense national purpose on the move. So, in effect, was Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give...
Most newsmen who knew them were willing to accept the statements of Bob Considine, Hal Boyle and Stan Delaplane that there had been no news-space quid pro quo with Hess. But by the very fact of becoming paid public personalities and hired performers, they had asked for embarrassment that could have been avoided had they stuck to their real jobs, at which all do exceedingly well...
...Today show, Dave Garroway wept. Said he: "I came to love Charles. He wronged himself, of course." Then Garroway broke down, left the show. Few viewers knew that the sequence was taped the afternoon before; NBC kept it in the can overnight, sobs and all, then put it on the air. It was quite a show, but NBC was missing a bet by not rerunning some of the old films of Van Doren in the Twenty One isolation booth, mopping his brow and muttering, "Let's skip that part of the question till later, please," and pretending to struggle...
...expressed their faith in me, their dedication to knowledge. I could not bear to betray that faith and hope. I felt that I carried the whole burden of the honor of my profession. And so I made a statement on the Garroway program the next morning that I knew of no improper activities on Twenty One and that I had received no assistance. I was, of course, very foolish. I was incredibly naive. I couldn't understand why Stempel should want to proclaim his own involvement. In a sense I was like a child who refuses to admit...