Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...
...this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever again...
...noise?" cried Homer. "The people that come to see our scene just stand there quiet and reverent and they don't drink or shout." The city gave up. Said Mayor Wallace Savage: "We can't just pass a law to stop it. Many people would think we were being antireligious...
...been sucked out. Though the Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con-Man Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money out here," he said. "But do you know what? I don't give a damn. I'm gonna eat for the rest...
...Never did I think when I began my religious life," he told his Argentina listeners, "that I would some day return to these microphones. But the life of the true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood. But I, who have had in abundance all that our youths dream of possessing, have come to say to you that all the world's gold, fame, power, applause and pleasure is not equivalent to one hour in the service of Christ...