Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Anderson to the U.S.'s No. 1 apple-grower: "Harry, you really know how to grow good apples, but you sure don't know how to count votes...
Your article on Congressman Halleck (R., Ind.) demonstrates what can be done by a man with conviction and know-how in spite of the odds. Let's get behind the President and insist upon fiscal responsibility by our national legislators...
There he sat until the Communists came to Shanghai some ten years ago. Abbot Soong moved out just before the Pa Lu moved in, and where he sits now I do not know. But I believe his impoverished congregation, which moved with him, still reveres Abbot Soong...
...Best I Know." Lewis Strauss sat out the session with a friend in his cavernous Commerce Department office. When he got news of the vote by phone, his eyes reddened, he bit hard on his pipe, then he said quietly: "We have to be able to take things like this." Next morning, summoned to the White House for a 20-minute talk with the President, Strauss genially told reporters that he was going to spend some time on his Virginia cattle farm and write a book, tentatively entitled Men and Decisions, about his Washington years. "It has been a privilege...
...Guns. Unfortunately, the Navy then performed with far less skill on the public-relations front. After Tail Gunner Corder was taken to a hospital (his condition: very good), the 13 other crewmen were hustled into a press conference. Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons - two .50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future...