Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. served notice that it was ready to talk business, Murray delegated Joe Molony, a district director, to negotiate with them...
Tigner began calling: "Bolivia 927 . . . Bolivia . . . Bolivia . . . turn left . . . turn left . . . Traffic, Eastern DC-4 on final approach and below!" The P-38 barreled on toward destruction. Not until the last seconds did Tigner switch back to the DC-4's channel (its pilot could not hear his talk to the fighter, had no means of knowing a plane was bearing down on him from above) and order: "Turn left! P-38 is traffic!" The big plane began to turn...
...white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
...take them into India. On from Kashgar, the route led 500 miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...