Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased, and to talk to whomever they wished. Unable to resisted the temptation, a few girls departed for the Square to take their finals over a cup of coffee in the Bick--an atmosphere hardly conducive to serious academic endeavor...
Professor Guber was in the United States last October to attend a meeting of the Bureau of the International Committee of Historians, and was invited by William L. Langer '15, director of the Russian Research Center, to give a talk on the study of history in the Soviet Union. He spent two days in Cambridge at the time and was shown around the University by members of the Center...
...shows with her sharp tongue that Comedian Jack Benny paid her the ultimate compliment: a well-rehearsed part as an "ad-lib" panelist in his TV satire on the subject. The show itself proved mainly that Pamela is no straight player. "I've always had a tendency to talk too much," she concedes. "I may as well enjoy it." That she does...
Mason might have scrapped the hearing aid altogether if he had grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school...
...Such talks soon made Pamela a public figure, ripe for network display on the Jack Paar show. Her new career seems assured as long as the talk fad continues. Says Oscar Levant, the top word slinger of them all: "Pamela, I think you've finally found your niche-just this side of vulgarity...