Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago most U.S. manufacturers could afford to export on a C.I.F. (cash-in-fist) basis. But today the manufacturer who wants export business does give credit terms abroad. One thing would aid U.S. manufacturers in export selling-having our Government backing them up on extended credit terms abroad, as do West Germany and the United Kingdom for their manufacturers...
...Premier Khrushchev takes this slogan to mean "working for a better life for the people within the Soviet Union, that is one thing. If on the other hand he means the victory of Communism over the U.S. and other countries, this is a horse of a different color. For we have our own ideas as to what system is best...
...exchange Sam King's standpat Republicanism for some of his own kind, President Eisenhower sent for Quinn, offered him the governorship. The young lawyer confessed his inexperience. Said Ike: "You are a fine, clean-cut young man. Now you do your best, and that will be the best thing for America...
...other times the questioners were obviously men in earnest. The exchanges would never become textbook classics in political dialogue-for one thing, constant translations seemed to bring out a simplified pidgin style of discourse. And the cold war has reached a point where the same dialogue works for both sides: Nixon got his biggest cheers and widest smiles by calling out that old Communist slogan, Mir i Druzhba (Peace and Friendship). It was what everybody wanted to hear, wanted to believe...
Diahann Carroll makes a lovely thing out of Clara. It is only unfortunate that she was not allowed to sing for herself, for her rendition of "Summertime" in her own album of the show's music is much more exciting than the dubbed version in the film...