Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev may write shorter letters than Bulganin, but he talks longer, oftener, and with more asides, anecdotes, wit and rhetorical questions than any other head of state. Last week, back in Moscow from eight days of spellbinding in Hungary, Khrushchev mounted a rostrum in Luzhniki Sports Palace, apologized for a strained throat, and then went at it for 45 minutes, getting more laughs and a bigger hand from his hometown audience than he got for all of his speechifying before numbed Hungarians...
...Western protests that the Soviet Union was offering "too little" in its proposals for reducing armed forces in the satellites and Western Europe: "Well, listen! 'Little!' The only thing you will be satisfied with is the end of the Soviet system, that it should no longer exist. Well, we would like to see the end of capitalism, too. But that is not in our power. And it is not in your power to end Communism...
...simultaneously wooed the extreme nationalists and the anti-American Reds (who polled 600,000 votes in 1945, the last time they ran a presidential candidate) by tooting a strident nationalist note, crying: "Brazil is no longer a colony of the imperialists." He plumped for the renewal of diplomatic relations with Russia, explaining: "Brazil is the only great nation now cut off from relations with Russia." He wagged a finger at the U.S.: "Brazilians feel that the United States takes our traditional friendship for granted...
...Catholics were in the fair on the ground floor four years ago. "It is inconceivable that the Catholic Church should not be represented at such a gathering," said the Rev. Jan Joos, secretary-general of the Holy See's pavilion. "Since most people no longer come to the church, we must bring the church to them." To help raise money, the church went farther than the fair itself: 53 national committees were organized, and representatives appointed in other countries. Posters were printed in ten languages, a pavilion magazine published in seven...
While few businessmen were willing to pinpoint the day on which the economy would come out of its slump, the Guaranty Trust knew what could delay the recovery. Said the bank: "The longer management clings to old methods, old products and old pricing policies, the longer it will take to recover lost markets. The more tenaciously labor insists upon maintaining, or raising, the cost of employment, the less employment there will...