Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like liberal Democrats, they argue that the U.S. needs more and more money spent on schools, roads and houses than the President is willing to spend. They dislike his insistence that inflation is the nation's principal hazard-not because they like inflation but because they want to talk about other things, e.g., reclamation, broader civil rights legislation, urban renewal and power development...
...beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently reinforced with 2,000 fresh troops flown in, had twice attempted to break through the rebel ring only to fail. The government still talked of an "all-out offensive"; the talk lost much of its steam when the Santiago commander bought up every foot of barbed wire in town, spun it around Moncada barracks and along the airport road...
Gradually Professor Loureiro won the Xetás' confidence, returning season after season to talk with them through Koi. He made taped records of their speech, whose strange sounds seem to blend with the calls and cries of the jungle. Said Czech Philologist Cestmir Loukotka, who studied the tapes: "It is an entirely new language. The Xetás are a people apart, with a culture and ethnic consciousness of their own, a Stone Age remnant now unique in the world...
...Within twelve months the Dow-Jones industrials went up 137.48 points from 435.69 to a historic high of 573.17 in the closing weeks of 1958; utilities jumped 20.42 points; rails soared 58.72 points. There were still skeptics who had seen such high-flying stocks and heard such talk of the new prosperity before-in 1929. But in 1929 the market was founded on fantasy, frenzy -and credit. In 1958 the Bull's flight to the moon was fueled almost entirely with cash, clear evidence of the investors' confidence in the U.S.'s economic health...
...foreign countries, the new economy's huge purchases kept imports at record rates, though exports plummeted from a peak annual rate of $20.5 billion in 1957 to $16.6 billion the first half of 1958. Gold flowed out of the U.S. at such a rate that there was talk of a flight from the dollar. While exaggerated, the talk underlined the fact that foreign companies are engaged in a vast modernization program, which, with lower labor costs, will give them a double advantage on world markets. Warns Alfred C. Neal, president of the Committee for Economic Development: "For the past...