Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to be almost visible through the thin layer of skin. In looking at him, one might entertain the fancy that he was a life-like statue. Once a student had said that during his visit with Professor Greg he had somehow felt like posterity itself being able to talk with the living past. He had also said that listening to Professor Greg was like being inland and lying in bed at night listening to the subdued roar of the ocean. This latter remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg had had as a controversialist. Many years earlier...
...order to put the Radcliffe cheerleaders into operation we shall have to get behind them. We urge every House Committee, every Final Club, and every undergraduate organization to name its own "Kutie." Talk to your organization president and House Committee Chairman--Make YOUR sweetheart cheerleader...
Pointing to the U.S.'s bright economic future, President Harry Truman used to talk headily of a $440 billion gross national product by 1960, but the U.S. economy's actual growth under Truman's successor has made that rosy forecast seem downright conservative. Last week, in a frankly political speech to a Republican rally in Chicago, President Dwight Eisenhower brandished some economic facts that might turn out to be bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross...
...Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment...
Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play...