Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently Businessman Cord forgot that successful politicians talk often and act cautiously. Cord somehow never filed for governor, gave no reason, left an impression that his health was poor. Incautiously he backed lackluster Harvey Dickerson, 53, Nevada attorney general and a habitual also-ran, for the governor's nomination, unabashedly poured an estimated $75,000 into Dickerson's campaign. When enterprising Dickerson Opponent Grant Sawyer, Elko County district attorney, cried that Cord was buying the governor's mansion just as he had bought corporations, tight-lipped Politician Cord ignored the charge. The impression took root; by last...
...stations), out into the parks, up into the private apartments of old friends-engineers, professional people, several Russian journalists. There was no case when anyone I tried to see refused to see me. This is remarkable. Most of those I saw, including party members, were quite willing to talk about anything at all, including concentration camps, the secret police and other things which in prewar days were never even mentioned...
...better everywhere, suggests Bunte Illustrierte, never to talk about the war. But, surprisingly, reports Bunte Illustrierte, it is in neutral Sweden that the Germans "generally meet with mistrust." The old, often-repeated tale of German tourists shocking their hosts by saying they had "come to love" a place while serving as occupiers during the war, is no longer widespread. Tourist marks, like tourist dollars, are much too valued...
...waddayawanna talk about tonight? Kim Novak's latest? Naw. Sam Goldwyn is 76? Wish him a happy birthday, but what's more to talk about? Lolly Parsons is in Hawaii? Let her stay out there and eat pineapples. Waddayawanna talk about? Tell you what, let's talk about this guy Ernie...
...liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen the pressure on the U.S. for shaky loans or grants. It would also cool the heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often had to talk tough to a borrower after loans were granted, to force him to put his fiscal house in order. A borrower would undoubtedly take such talk from the nations in the fund with much better grace...