Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument, and this suited Khrushchev. He put on quite a show. When I said we had been much impressed by the earnestness with which people talked of "overtaking and surpassing" U.S. production in 10 or 15 years, Khrushchev answered with a trace of irritation: "I don't know why some people in your country don't take this slogan seriously. Our rates and tempos of growth are three and four times those of your country. I don't know about the time, but the lines are bound to cross. We are all convinced that we will overtake...
...Soviet press, he said, would soon publish the complete text of C.I.O.-A.F.L. President George Meany's recent speech on the state of the U.S. economy-"because we want our young people, who do not know what capitalism means, to learn about the drawbacks of your system, not from the words of Mr. Khrushchev, who is known to be anticapitalist, but from Mr. Meany, who supports capitalism." He was getting more playful as the conversation continued, and after one more critique of capitalism, he asked: "Is this propaganda?" He seemed delighted when Dick Scammon said: "In a word...
...pushed back our chairs to end the interview. I asked Khrushchev if he knew yet how the election had come out in the Moscow district where he himself was a candidate for the Supreme Soviet. He did not know, but it looked as if he would have a majority of 99.5% "or perhaps 99.7% or 99.8%." I congratulated him on his showing; he nodded his thanks, and I congratulated the people of his district for having such an able candidate. He picked up this ball and ran with it: "Oh, we have a great many able candidates. That...
...suits. The women, of course, are more in style. They've been wearing sack dresses for years." On watching voters in the U.S.S.R.'s one-party election: "Let's hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...
...that way. "Remember, all this doesn't make me angry." he told an interviewer, "even though it's an attack. I think the whole thing is unhealthy. It's sick, that's what it is. Allen gets criticism and turns on the critic. You know what this all means, don't you? It means 'Jack O'Brian doesn't like my show.' " Would Critic O'Brian reply to Critic Allen in his daily column? Said he staunchly: "I'm not even going to mention...