Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with considerable disappointment that we read your attack upon an established industry ["That Xmas Loot-Santa Brings More Headaches Than Cheer"]. What a man does in his business is actually his own business, but when he tells a thousand of his suppliers that his people may not accept Christmas gifts, then he is using the boycott...
...voice, but that was impossible: she had bad throat trouble. Mornings, when she first woke up, she could barely speak. When she finally got her voice cranked up, it came out lower than any of the other kids'. "Children have such high voice," she remembers wistfully. "They read their lessons together, way up there. And I read my lesson, way down there." Then, one day during music class at school, the teacher heard a new voice and asked in surprise. "Who's that?" Suddenly Miyoshi Umeki could sing...
Pros & Amateurs. New Yorkers were fed a low-calorie diet of daily news from strange and familiar sources. The city's radio and television stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news...
...illegible script, abbreviating wherever possible ("negotiate" becomes "nego"), he composes 750 to 1,000 carefully chosen words. He declaims his handiwork into a Dictaphone, punctuation and all: "It is not probable comma I think comma that on the whole . . ." After his staff types and checks his message, it is read over the long-distance telephone to an automatic recording device at the Herald Tribune in New York...
...with great interest that I read the editorial on Cyprus that appeared in your December 4 issue. I feel that it was highly successful in capturing the main problems involved, and in showing why a solution is not going to be reached easily. There is one statement, however, which is definitely out of place in this well informed article, and that is the assertion that "it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved" in the last five years...