Word: telling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom Johnson had written off last January in his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats. With the help of a booming economy, Dwight Eisenhower has managed to sell his balanced budget on Main Street. (Says New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton: "A lot of fellows used to tell me how alarmed people were back home about the budget, but I never believed it. My voters never cared about these big problems down in Washington. But this year, for the first time, I find the people on Main Street are really concerned about spending.") In defense of his program...
Mimi's last meeting with Hitler was in his apartment on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich in 1938. "Are you happy, Wolf?" she asked him there. "No, if you mean with Eva," answered Hitler. "I tell her every day she ought to find some young fellow. I'm too old." (Hitler was then 49.) Then Mimi asked her old lover what everyone else was asking: "Will there be war?" Der Führer shrugged his shoulders and turned away...
...free to state our opinions in any way we like," said Justice Cyril Salmon, "diffidently, decorously, politely and discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey...
...female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from a drop of blood and tell exactly what disease the patients were suffering from...
...forgetting all about herself, too. "When she saw Imitation of Life" recalls a friend, "she was moved to tears. Hours later, when she got home, she glanced in a mirror by accident and noticed her mascara streaked down her cheeks. She was upset because nobody had bothered to tell her, but most people would have looked in a mirror on purpose long before then...