Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long talk session leading to the squirrel's leap, White rather clearly delineates the opposing points of view: passivity vs. action, selfishness vs. altruism, irresponsibility vs. concern. And he does it quickly and lightly so his meaning is never a burden...
...Please don't linger, and don't bother the workers with questions. They are not permitted to talk during work hours. All questions in my office," comes from our guide as he hurries us along...
...audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...
Ladles, Gentlemen & Scholars. Braithwaite had his own racial bitterness to overcome on that first day as he sat listening to Headmaster Alexander Florian talk of Greenslade's children. The school allowed no punishment of a child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite...
Amid all the speeches, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, speaking for a worried Administration, supplied the week's straightest talk. Said he: "Higher profits or wages, resulting in higher costs and prices that people won't pay, mean that some people may pay with their jobs. Workers and management have to recognize that consumers may not be willing to follow prices upward indefinitely...