Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen that it will be "pretty rough'' to keep 1960 spending at the fiscal-1959 level. But when asked whether 1960's total would be $2 billion higher than 1959's, he recoiled: "Oh, no." How about $1 billion higher? "I just don't know," said McElroy. His final word before boarding his plane back to Washington: "economy" is being considered as well as "security," but "the first by no means takes precedence over the second." Which was to say that things would be profitably painful but not perilous...
...later life, said Charles Franklin Kettering, who grew up in wonderment on an Ohio farm. "Why," he asked, peering nearsightedly out of his mother's kitchen window, "can I see through a pane of glass?" "What," he asked, "is magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...Akihito, dressed now in ancient court costume, went off to the three Shinto shrines on the palace grounds to tell his ancestors about his betrothal. Michiko herself went on TV to tell the Japanese people what she liked about the prince. "A clean, sincere man," she said, "whom I know I can trust...
...phony way of oversimplifying the choice or prominence of television programs bought by the advertising agencies for various manufacturers. We shouldn't worship these ratings as we do ... Frankly, I don't think we can pass legislation, but I do think the public . . . is entitled to know why they are getting certain programs...
...sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders: "Do you know I'm a shareholder in the Daily Worker? But I can't afford to write for it-I write for Vogue instead." At times he is melancholy about the passing of the years: "I am 35 and I do want...