Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called at Browder's one-room, $100-a-month office on Manhattan's West 42nd Street and found that the publishing business had been closed up since the end of July. Earl Browder no longer had a pipeline to the Kremlin. "I have not been able to talk to Joe Stalin and find out if he still loves me," said Browder, wryly. "I am unemployed at present and looking...
...reputation, but soon became one of the most respected men in Washington. His character was an inspiring blend of force and gentleness, of practicality and high purpose. ¶Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr) (1946-48), a professional diplomat who could play the bagpipes and would rather talk about Scottish wild. flowers than about politics. He was said to look like "a cigar-store Indian with a high polish." This could have been misleading; he was much smarter than a cigar-store Indian...
...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
...roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk authoritatively about...
...roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk authoritatively about...