Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obsessive Questions. Nixon started off pleasantly by ad-libbing an apology for pre-empting the time of a popular humor program, went on to tell his listeners about his "impressions of this country and its people." He praised the "beauty and culture of Leningrad," the "inspiring pioneer spirit of Novosibirsk," the "magnificent ballets," the "drive for progress." He had been struck, he said, by the Soviet people's "capacity for hard work, their vitality, their intense desire to improve their...
...jamming of U.S. broadcasts and its refusal to give the Russian people a chance to choose freely between conflicting "truths." At Uralmash, the Siberian plant that has made so many machine tools that it is called "the Mother of Factories," Nixon told a heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that you can listen to this radio broadcast but not that, and say, 'Oh no, we don't let you hear this because it is slander...
...sharpest attacks on the government to date: the Devlin report "was testimony to British justice and fair play. It could even have been regarded as a feather in the cap of the government that set [it] up. Instead, the government's response has been roughly, 'Tell the truth and shame the Devlin.' Politics has overridden the appearance of detached justice. Mr. Macmillan has involved the whole credit of himself and his government...
...result, says Driver Jack Brabham, 32, "is a car that's safer and easier to race." As others tell it, the driver makes the package look good. The son of a greengrocer in a Sydney suburb, Brabham studied engineering, during World War II was a flight mechanic in the Royal Australian Air Force. Brabham was lured into the pits by a driving friend who wanted a good mechanic on hand, and soon found himself behind the wheel, although he confesses: "I was frightened to death...
Defendant Korpa had told the judge that he attended a Roman Catholic church, and to Baptist Eyman it seemed quite "normal and natural to tell the boy to go to church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens...