Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to Acheson, the President explained: "I wished him luck as I've always wished them luck when they leave here." But the accent was different. Obviously, the U.S.'s President and his Secretary of State were confident that they held some strong cards and that the need for luck was no longer quite so desperate...
Vickers does not hope to deliver Viscount 7005 before 1952, but there seems to be no great need for hurry. U.S. manufacturers have given comparatively little attention to the turboprop. Their attitude has been that commercial airliners will jump directly from piston engines to turbojets, but not soon. The problems of the 600 m.p.h. jet airliner are far more difficult than those of the intermediate airplane driven by turboprops...
...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...
...Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy people who would be satisfied to get their news of the world in the tiniest capsules ever dealt to them by any magazine...
...Miami administration denied this, stating that the three men were not reappointed on basis of "lack of need" of their services. "This institution," the university said, "maintains no record of political affiliation of staff members...