Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personally, I made no attempt not to look like a foreigner and was approached a score of times on the street, often near the big hotels that all have uniformed militiamen standing outside them. Sometimes people just wanted to talk, sometimes to buy dollars. (I tried to find out what they wanted them for; all said they were buying them for "friends"-perhaps Soviet tourists, of whom hundreds are currently loose in groups in Europe.) Sometimes teen-agers wanted to exchange Soviet emblems, officers' pips, even medals for chewing gum, foreign clothes, pens and dollars. In most cases, these...
...crowds of visitors (76,324 by head count) were handled by 40 young American missionaries who first guided their charges into a green tent to watch a movie showing the spread of Mormonism through the world. Then the visitors, warned not to talk or smoke within the temple, were escorted in groups through the building (cost: $1,700,000), saved their questions to be asked later. They had plenty of questions: Why was there a telephone switchboard? Why were there locker rooms and powder rooms with Queen Anne-style dressing tables? What was the green and beige drawing room, called...
...Mormons in Britain, with 75 chapels. Mormon leaders are sure the new temple will soon draw many converts. Said the temple's president, Selvoy J. Boyer: "Hundreds of people who have been through the temple have asked our missionaries to visit them in their homes to talk to them about our faith...
Whiffing a good thing, Upjohn sent scouts to the Big Cypress Reservation near Immokalee, found a tranquil oldster (74) who still hunts, fishes and farms all day without tiring. Billie was free to talk commerce, it developed, because he got religion 14 years ago and quit practice to become a Baptist minister. Last month Upjohn flew Billie in a private plane to Kalamazoo, there besought him (with a new hearing aid and a little cash) to demonstrate his lore...
...Despite the talk about airplane noises, few property owners ever bother to take legal action, and fewer still win. The U.S. Air Force, for example, has been named in 34 suits about aircraft noise. Although its planes operate without suppressors, only three suits were lost; only one of those involved pure jets...