Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension?" The union rested its case...
...read the article with quite some surprise, not to mention disgust. The tone . . . was deplorable. In short, it sounded to me as though TIME might be harboring a little ill feeling toward Masonry...
...argument might be used against fire alarms, which do not sound until a fire has broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...
...mention of segregation and equal rights in the same breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
...time with a new sponsor, Bristol-Myers (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). The ingredients were familiar: Morgan burlesquing high-flown documentaries; Morgan being badgered by bustling stooges. Biggest surprise was Morgan's respectful treatment of his sponsor and his super-generous mention (96 times) of the sponsor's name and products. As a reformed bad boy, Morgan is not necessarily funnier than before, but he might last longer...