Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twin sister Lannie were still barefoot kids scuffling in the played-out dirt around their parents' shack near Jackson, Miss. Bill pestered the owner of the general store into giving him a guitar. "Bill could play your name on it," says Lannie. "I swear he could make it talk...
...come into line soon. Next, the Federal Reserve announced that it had reduced its holdings of short-term Treasury bills, bringing member banks' net free reserves, which had been around $500 million for five months, down to $403 million. Though the Fed's moves brought immediate talk of rising interest rates and a return to tight money, the actions were largely psychological, designed more to check the inflationary fever that has hit the securities market (see below) than to restrict credit itself...
...Steel climbed to an operating rate of 62.2% last week, the seventh straight weekly increase despite earlier talk that there would be no upturn before the third quarter...
...Columbia) clothes Danny Kaye, hailed as "the world's greatest clown" by his pressagents and some critics not on the payroll, in a seedy business suit and black Homburg, and tints his hair middle-aged grey. Not a prat in the whole picture falls, and not one double-talked song or double-sung talk issues from the Silly Putty that is Kaye's usual movie face. The result of this hold-down of his celebrated talents is the most appealing and one of the funniest films Danny Kaye has ever made...
...turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about the sordid or tragic facts of life in staccato sociology, couch jargon or four-letter words, Lolita is the more shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny. It is (in many of its pages) a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes, and its punning comedy...