Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company pays a driver who owns his own truck]. He had one company decreased from 74% to 70%, three companies decreased from 75% to 72%, and one company decreased from 80% to 72% . . . George further said that Hoffa is very tough in these open meetings, but you can talk to him in a closed, private session. That is the way in which most of the steel carriers operate...
After an early-morning flight from Albany to Washington, a 4O-minute talk with President Eisenhower, a news conference, and a New England boiled dinner in the Senate dining room, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller stood outside the U.S. Capitol, posed for camera-carrying tourists, shook hands with everybody who passed by, finally swabbed off his brow and sighed: "Gee, does every Governor go through this?" The answer to that one was: No, only those who are running for President-and last week Nelson Rockefeller was running hard...
...wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead of just meeting it for base hits. "You might as well talk to a wall as to Rocky," complains Lane. "He'll 'yes' you like crazy, and go right on trying for home runs." Cracks a Yankee coach: "They don't call him Rocky for nothing...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
Though there was talk of a "peace scare," Wall Street agreed that the market was due for a technical correction after a headlong rise from last spring, saw the break as an opportunity for earnings and dividends to catch up with soaring prices. The drop was accelerated by news of the exotic fuel cutback (see Aviation) and poor earnings in aircraft companies...