Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitably, the announcement in Washington and Moscow of an exchange of visits between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev stirred talk around the world of a deep thaw in the cold war. In the thaw mood, the Communist press suddenly stopped sniping at the U.S., and Premier Khrushchev jovially announced that he would not do any saber-rattling during his visit. In Washington, President Eisenhower made it known that he was planning to meet Khrushchev's plane when it arrives in mid-September, though Khrushchev is not technically chief of the Soviet state,*and protocol does not demand welcome...
Rarely in peacetime had a Cabinet session been so charged with talk of wide-ranging travel, wide-ranging hopes-and a mood of crossed fingers. From the two dozen members of the President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers...
...theatre, on the threshold of new traditions, must not be limited in its thinking," Robert Whitehead commented in his talk, "On the Theatre" last week...
...Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble, did not attempt to delight the crowd with his show-stopping telefono routine-leaning casually on the bull's head and pretending to talk into its horn. But Dominguin, facing his third and final bull, still had won no ears, while Ordonez had picked up three new ones. Dominguin was badly gored in the right thigh, landed in a Madrid hospital. Two days later, Ordonez was in a nearby bed after catching a "less...
...deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...