Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Nickerson declined to comment on the Explorer's success. His wife had no such inhibitions. "He has orders not to comment on missiles," said she by telephone from Panama. "But I have no orders not to talk, and I think it's wonderful that the Army has lived up to all the things it promised...
...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
...Some of the commonest for which animals are now treated: arthritis or bursitis (by injections of hydrocortisone), adenoiditis, tonsillitis and undescended testicles (all treated by surgery); respiratory infections (antibiotics). The human-animal parallel is so close that if he has a difficult case many a vet will often talk it over with an M.D.; Dr. McBride recently sought guidance from a proctologist on a case of canine hemorrhoids...
...pupil, scientists may come in any size or shape, but "they are interesting only in science, talk about science all the time, have a mild temper and patience beyond endurance." The poor wretch of the laboratory "doesn't hardly ever have time to fix his self up, he is so busy experimenting. Usually single-if married not many kids, if any. But a real brain. Doesn't hardly ever go to bed." "I believe," said one student, "the typical scientist would stay in his little laboratory most of the time except to eat and go to conventions...
...idea for a U.S. trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass, himself talked long and hard with Russian trade officials. He got a written agreement to stage the fair last summer, canceled it at U.S. Government request after the Hungarian revolution, signed a new contract last July to exhibit this summer...