Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, Italy's senators got similar exercise. Just before the Atlantic pact debate, Interior Minister Mario Scelba discussed Communist charges that he had used his police force illegally during the recent farm strike. Said he: "Idle talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent...
...army came across more & more mines near the village. There were many casualties. Last week, an army truck was blown up by a mine just outside Klidi. The wounded driver saw one of Dimitrios' men, Basilis Stoikos, lurking in the bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore it open again and bled to death...
Five to One. Last week, in the hospital's monthly publication, Talk, talk-conscious Dr. Greene talked about an old subject. It has been known for centuries that male stutterers far outnumber females (at the hospital the ratio is 5 to 1). But why? Some doctors think that it might be the difference between male and female sex chromosomes (which also influence vocal characteristics),* but they have never had any final proof...
Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
...summer school at Harvard. The schoolmarms in gingham were there. Young men in slacks lounged in gate ways; bookworms burrowed in the Widener stacks. It seemed as if only the stu dents in an advanced seminar called "Science and General Education at the College Level" had anything new to talk about. Their subject: a new professor...