Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During their half-hour talk, McElroy accepted the President's offer on the single condition that he be allowed to take a leave of absence from (instead of quitting) Procter & Gamble (since P. & G. was willing to give up its small share of defense contracts, there seemed to be no conflict of interests). Before taking over, McElroy characteristically set out on his tour of military establishments. On the evening of Oct. 4 he was at dinner at the Army's Huntsville, Ala. ballistic missile center when Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun was called from the table. Von Braun...
...only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there's the room you can see through the glass-that's just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other...
Nothing that Harold Macmillan or his colleagues said implied any break or even quarrel with the U.S. This was talk and criticism of the kind that distinguishes true allies from satellites. Beyond domestic political situations it was prompted by a feeling that the West as a unit must re-examine some of its international assumptions in the light of Sputnik...
...most sources of private capital, foreign and local. In partial compensation, Ceylon has got $20 million from the Soviet bloc, the great bulk of it a grant from Communist China, which is hungry for Ceylon's rubber. Recently a 16-man Soviet delegation came to Colombo to talk over a proposed Soviet credit to finance oil prospecting, expansion of Ceylon's sugar and textile industries and construction of hydroelectric projects. Prospects that the Soviet credit would go through, announced Ceylonese Transport Minister Maithripala Senanayake last week, were "favorable...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of "enemies of the peace" were jailed. Tanks kept cars and pedestrians two blocks away from Miraflores Palace. All was quiet, but the talk in Caracas was of "the next try," under better organized military men, perhaps aided by the civilians, who kept their arms folded this time...