Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the main talk about the "main thing" came from Washington...
...thoughts and words were made known in quiet talks with unnerved Congressmen, in one of his toughest-talk press conferences (see below), in a strategically timed call on Congress to provide more foreign aid to U.S. allies, and finally, in a speech drafted for nationwide telecast a few days before the arrival this week of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Scraps of Paper. West Berlin, said Ike in his speech draft, is not just a city 4,000 miles away-seven hours by jet flight-but is the symbol of the free world. Khrushchev's talk-threat to renounce the Big Four agreements and impose a new blockade fitted Lenin's definition that "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Free men have died before for so-called scraps of paper that represented duty, honor and freedom. Said Ike: "Let the Soviets remember...
...puerile; its melodramatic politics, so characteristic of the time (coarse, pravdaically fiendish big-business villains and oppressed but upright working-class heroes) is as dated as its slang. The "Solidarity Forever" day of leftist-labor idealism are over; people who were part of them seldom like to talk about them, even before Congressional committees. In 1959 Clifford Odets' play about striking taxi drivers deserves attention largely as an amusing, nostalgic period piece...
According to Radcliffe's present examination rules, nearly identical with those suggested in 1954, students are forbidden to remove question sheets or blue books from the exam room and are requested not to talk in the room or halls. They are still free to leave the room without a proctor's guardianship. However, these rules lost much of their importance last fall, when the Radcliffe Administration voted to hold joint exams with Harvard in courses enrolling less than 20 'Cliffies. As a result, Radcliffe administered only 52 separate examinations at mid-year, while Harvard and its regulations controlled finals...