Word: two-way
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Harry Butcher, wartime aide of General Eisenhower and an old friend of Godfrey's, explains earnestly: "Arthur conducts a two-way conversation all by himself. It's more than a soliloquy: it's a great art. What do you call it-? Empathy.* You know, the ability to get inside other people, to understand exactly how they're feeling...
Three years after Julius' death in 1936, new President William E. Schmid, a Garfinckel veteran who had begun his business career as a clerk in a packing house, began making changes. He launched ad campaigns, even wriggled into television with a demonstration by a model of a two-way stretch girdle. Sales have grown until last year Garfinckel's gross was $21.6 million...
...into rival dictatorships. Britain, freedom's old home, is "Airstrip One" and its people, A.D. 1984, are controlled in every thought and act by Big Brother. Winston Smith, the pathetic hero, wakes in the morning to compulsory gymnastics directed by a virago who can see him from a two-way "telescreen" which takes pictures as well as projects them.* Winston's day is spent falsifying history to suit Big Brother, and when Winston rebels, Big Brother has ready for him a deeper slavery. There was a real danger that the trapped, submissive Winston Smith might be as truly...
...sloppy soda fountain−decayed hamburger, sour milk, mustard and vanilla−can never forget it. The same goes for a telephone booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying about what remained to be done, that nobody had yet made a faucet that didn't leak. Well, it no longer leaks−but why not do something about the faucet itself? Is it necessary...
...Purple's defensive standouts are Co-Captain Tom Kelleher, a two-way end and a regular for three years, and Bill DeChard, who backs up the line. Kelleher is still nursing a knee injury; DeChard saw little action last year because of a shoulder bruise, but shone as a freshman two years...