Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were wrong, of course, but tradition being the nice thing that it is, they kept on with Armistice Day until finally nobody could think up any original speeches about why there weren't any armistices any more. So they changed the name to Veterans...
...Catholic, but I was extremely glad to see the tasteful way in which TIME, Oct. 20 reported the Pope's demise. I think it was disgusting the way others reported it-as if it were a football game or some other play-by-play contest...
...Like some of the other people who are now retiring voluntarily, within two years I retire whether it's voluntary or not," he ad-libbed to a Manhattan rally of Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. "So I am interested in good government and I think you can understand that my interest is: For America. There can be nothing else." Same day, before an audience of Republican organization regulars, Ike took a step toward reducing the hot-blooded partisanship that elections inspire. "If we join hands," he said, "regardless of religion and race and geography and any other divisive type...
...Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he spoke to 18,000, thence to Wichita, Kans., Billings, Mont. and Everett, Wash. Between speeches he found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports over political TV shows ("I find them a bore-the shows like Meet the Press...
...Express. ATOM FALLOUT RISE HERE SETS OFF PANIC. cried the Chandler Mirror-News.Switchboards lit up as anxious residents phoned city officials, newspaper offices. TV studios. Scientists passed out the word. "No danger to anyone.'' said U.C.L.A.'s Nuclear Medicine Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that it hoped to conduct one more test shot in Nevada the next night, weather permitting, Mayor Poulson blew up: "We don't like to be talked...