Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship's End. The blowup came over Goldfine's project to build a garage under Boston Common. After it became a losing venture despite some uncommon help from Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley and Governor Dever, Goldfine still managed to talk Fox into investing in it. At a 1955 showdown meeting at which Fox was supposed to settle up, Goldfine claims that Fox walked out-and Fox last week claimed that Goldfine disappeared after saying "he had to go to the men's room...
...press conference attended by 600, Old Revolutionist Malraux noted dryly, "The works of Mao Tse-tung are dominated by one political concept: Communism. Those who talk about the group that they call 'the colonels' group' are thinking about a psychological technique without a doctrine...
...Tunis airport early this week, I found, by luck, a vacant seat next to Krim. He was returning to Cairo from the Conference of North African Arabs and, after an initial coolness ("I took you for a Frenchman"), he dropped his natural wariness of strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word came out: injustice...
Despite all talk about price as the great determinant, low cost is the major factor for barely 16% of all shoppers; studies also show that another 16% shop only for heavily advertised brands. In between ranges the vast middle ground of shoppers, fair game for the motivational researchers, who take dead aim with all the analytical gimmicks under the supermarket sun. They claim, for instance, that the undecided mass of supermarket shoppers -they call them "emotionally insecure"-really do not know what they want when they enter a store and often are not sure what they have bought right...
...Maritain, "all this talk about American materialism is no more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed...