Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hired by David Selznick to teach Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, et al., how to "talk Southern" in Gone With the Wind...
...Tobiansky went from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to visit his brother. When he did not come back, his wife Lena went to the headquarters of the Haganah, in which her husband held a high post. "I asked everyone where Mischa was," she recalls. "Most of them wouldn't talk to me. They shut their doors in my face...
...Moore set out for the last nine miles of his journey on foot. He had come all the way from Boston to make his round of visits; before accepting the presidency of the University of Alaska, he had decided that he should call on each of the regents to talk things over...
...step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from Soviet official scientific bodies and officially approved scientists. They clearly show that Soviet scientists are no longer free to seek for truth; they must seek for "truth" which pleases the Communist...
...Such talk was relatively easy for steel, which had already felt such a shakeout that it had laid off hundreds of workers. But the auto industry was still booming and expected to sell every car it could make this year. To keep making them, while the market is there, it might be willing to undermine Big Steel's stand against raises. That is precisely what happened last year, when General Motors gave the U.A.W. a third round and broke the solid front of Big Steel and General Electric...