Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending not with a bang, not with a whimper, but merely...
...scandal over Kenya's Hola camps, where eleven African prisoners had been beaten to death by guards, had come the Devlin report (TIME, Aug. 3) calling the British protectorate of Nyasaland a "police state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence...
...wonderfully vivacious and satirical script was written twenty years ago, if you need to be told, by George S. Kaufman in collaboration with Moss Hart. Indulging their favorite practice of portraying well-known persons of their day, the dramatists wrote the play around the notorious, corpulent Alexander Woollcott, alias Mr. Sheridan Whiteside, a "critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great...
...feverish businessman who cannot fathom the playboy's vagaries, Edward G. Robinson has an intonation and gesture to fit every line-and all the best lines are his. To a cab driver who cynically returns a ten-cent tip: "What'sa matter, you don't need a dime? 7 need a dime, and I've got more money than...
Instead of blindly disputing each other on the highly charged subject of featherbedding, both management and labor need to realize their duty to themselves-and to the U.S.-to work together in eliminating a luxury that the U.S. cannot afford in a competitive world economy. Featherbedding pushes up prices, pinches productivity, penalizes the consumer and the productive worker to reward the drone. Worst of all, by discouraging the use of time-saving and production-boosting new machines, it retards U.S. economic growth. Every economist agrees that the best way to create more jobs is to make the economy grow faster...