Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to change my name if I expect to get any peace." In Britain, for example, Getty has been forced to increase his tips (from 14? to 35?, and so on): "As the richest man in the U.S. [if] you give a man a shilling [14?], he'll talk about it for the rest of his life!" Explaining why oil and love don't mix, Getty, a veteran of five marriages, sourly aphorized: "A woman resents a man dedicated to his business. She, in fact, resents anything dedicated to anything but herself...
...spite of all the talk about giving the children of the proletariat first crack at higher education, those actually getting it are the children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...
...These six quartets were written over a period of 30 years, between 1908 and 1939. Even the earliest reveals a musician of size and depth. Impressively played, all reveal a dazzling ability to create new sounds about old torments, a gift for making strings do everything but talk. Sometimes, in the strange musical idiom Bartok invented, they seem to do even that...
After agreement on new rules and trades, the baseballers sat down to talk some more, and the illusion of interleague cooperation collapsed. Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
...production. In Hollywood, Fla. 1,050 conventioneers at the Investment Bankers Association predicted that easier money will bolster the slump in capital investments, that record personal incomes will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe decline may have been passed," and only "relatively mild" adjustments seem to lie ahead. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. said that chances of a real recession are diminishing...