Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other years the CRIMSON would have found such a condition of the country shocking. Courts would have thrown out the case against the Communists. America has never been a land of persecution. Here no one has been afraid to talk up; the police have not been permitted to keep files on the beliefs of citizens. When the situation has been momentarily altered, as in the period which gave a neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because...
...charge you that if the defendants did no more than pur sue peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...
Ismet Pasha works hard to be popular. At least 5,000,000 portraits of him, in formal evening attire, adorn Turkish parlors and offices. Occasionally the President drops into a coffee shop to feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey...
...neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted voluntarily. Things boil along to the accompaniment of some old Louis Armstrong records and a lot of very uninformed talk about jazz...
...started in August was already tapering off, and that the strikes were bound to give the economy another push down. Even if the walkouts were settled soon-and there was no sign of that-many a company was bound to feel the effects on its fourth-quarter earnings. Gloomiest talk of all came this week from Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. He said that the strikes had already checked "the upward trend in business and employment," and that there would be "serious damage to the economy" in a month if the steel strike continued. If the strikes last till...