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Word: told (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the week Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. flew in with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so, that Congress was unlikely to be in a tax-increasing mood. The U.S., already $256 billion in debt and likely to add $5.5 billion to its burden this year, found little warmth in the news that it might go into the red another $7 billion next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Kitten on the Keys | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Angus Ward puffed on a stubby little pipe as he told of living for a month on bread and hot water, two weeks of it in unheated solitary confinement at freezing temperatures. One afternoon, after this "hellish treatment," he was hauled before a Communist court, charged with and convicted of beating a Chinese messenger in a scuffle over pay, and ordered out of China. Red broadcasts to the contrary, Ward said, he had "confessed" nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hellish Treatment | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...first we picked up the phone, told them they had the wrong number and hung up," said Ettlinger, "but we missed a lot of important Wellesley calls, so we had to stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Phone Calls Plague Freshmen With Requests | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Loss of China to the Communists is "not so serious a blow to democracy as is popularly supposed," H. V. Kaltenborn '09 told a near capacity crowd at Littauer Center last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kaltenborn Minimizes Situation in China, Will Discuss Radio Tonight at Law Forum | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...statement to the CRIMSON last night said, "Father Feeney is a man who claims he has the road to salvation, and he called me damned, laying his hand upon me in so saying, for finding another road from his to the Christ he pretends to revere. He told me yesterday that Ernest Renan, Charles Dickens, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Merton ('a weak T. S. Eliot'), and Bishop Wright were damned...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Public Debate Offer Refused By Fr. Feeney | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

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