Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major Shupe began yelling "Americano! Americano!" No effect. But suddenly, from somewhere in the crowd, he heard the words "New York! Chicago!" Shupe threw his head back and shouted "New York! Chicago! New York! Chicago!" He shouted every U.S. place name he could think of-"Pittsburgh! Kansas City! Kansas City! Boston! Dallas! San Francisco!" And at last the peasants, who perhaps had thought that the airmen were their old enemies, the Turks, fell back. Just before the Soviet military police arrived one of the peasants offered Shupe a drink of water. "Don't ask me why," said he afterward...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the reformed protectionist who has led the Administration's Capitol Hill campaign for the five-year bill, called the committee changes "unacceptable," vowed that the Administration would "fight to get the legislation that we think is to the benefit of this country." Due this week: a battle on the Senate floor to repair at least some of the Finance Committee's damage...
WHAT THE RUSSIAN GENERALS THINK...
...exempt baseball from antitrust action, Stengel was asked by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver why the bill should be passed. "Well," said Casey, clarifying things, "you can retire with an annuity at 50, and I further state that I am not a member of that plan. You'd think, my goodness, why not, and him 48 years in baseball." "I'm not sure I made my question clear," said the Keef, doubtfully. "I would say that I wouldn't know," droned Stengel again, "but I imagine to keep baseball going as high as baseball is a sport that...
...eighth grader in a questionnaire: 'Do you think your parents are too strict? Or do you think your parents are too lenient? Give the reasons why.' . . . Frankly, I don't think it's anybody's business how we handle our children; especially, it is not for our 13-year-old daughter to sit down and ponder and write about her parents' at-home techniques. Suppose she decides we are entirely too strict. Does she call us into the living room for a friendly but constructive chat, or does she discuss us with her teacher...