Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...
Vainly, Speaker Sam Rayburn got down on the floor himself to plead for "the whole loaf, not half a loaf." Such economizing, Rayburn cried, was just another sample of the "same caution, the same hesitation, the same wait-awhile" of prewar isolationism. "There's more talk around here about Communism, but it's a funny thing that when we start to do something about it those speaking the loudest against Communism are found wanting...
Many Siamese call Phibun two-faced, suspect he is more interested in establishing an army dictatorship than in making democracy work. "Government leaders just like to talk about democracy," a Bangkok university student complained last week. "They spell it out with their hands, and rub it out with their feet." Most Siamese wish fondly that cowlicked, 21-year-old little King Phumiphon (pronounced Poomeepone) would return from his voluntary exile in Switzerland, where he spends his time writing songs. His 'Tis Sundown and Rainfall are enthusiastically sung by Siamese students everywhere and played frequently in Bangkok nightclubs. Sample...
Complained New York Times Critic John Martin: "If Miss Bettis is not careful, she will talk us all to death...Apparently all dancers have to learn sooner or later that even more to be avoided than sprains and charley horses is the Commedia dell' Arte, and Miss Bettis has undertaken to learn the hard...
...these early years, the new biography by the poet's grandson, Charles Tennyson, supplies much material never published before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children...