Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December Plenum, Nikita set to work. Like the practical man he is, he recognized that his liberalization had gone too far. In November 1956, when Hungary was fighting for its freedom, Nikita had lurched up to U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen at a Moscow party and said: "I want to talk to you about Suez." "I want to talk to you about Hungary," replied Bohlen. "What are you going to do about it?" Khrushchev exploded. Pumping his fist in a series of short uppercuts, he shouted: "We will put in more troops?and more troops?and more troops?and more troops?...
...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...
...Queen's loyal subjects clearly liked Elizabeth just as she was. Said a cockney cab driver: "I vote Labor every time. But there's nothing like our Queen. No President could talk like that and mean what she means to everyone." A university student was even more choked up: "She really shot back at her critics. After hearing her, my Dad said to me, 'Ruddy good show, that,' and that's just what...
...Clyde Belin. B.B.A.. Th.B.. Th.M., Th.D.. Ph.D., was a scholarly, dedicated-looking gentleman. His plans for setting up a liberal arts college, a Bible college, a college of engineering, and schools of home economics, business, agriculture, journalism and law were certainly impressive, and so was his talk of a $1,600,000 bond issue that two Texas insurance firms were to buy to finance the new Belin Memorial University (named for Belin's mother). The Chillicothe State Bank was only too happy to lend Belin $14,000 without security, and local merchants could not do enough...
...ouvre a Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah in Bombay, Schubert's Ave Maria in many places-and some long, too long, interviews in between. She went to an old church in Viet Nam to sing Let My People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort. Eulogized U Nu for the CBS cameras: "The beauty and charm...