Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nobody in Congress raised his voice in rebuttal: to defend Acheson was to defend Alger Hiss. Even Harry Truman curtly refused comment. In the silence, the chatty, tea-table voice of Eleanor Roosevelt sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt, who obviously had not been paying much attention, was "very troubled" by the Hiss case: "It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt," she said. She was either unaware of, or determined to ignore, the corroborating evidence introduced by the Government to prove the charges of its chief witness, Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier...
...disclosed, he has received no word whatsoever from the ADA on their proposal to push him as a potential candidate. Since he "seriously doubted that there was any possibility of this," he declined to comment on whether or not he would be available for the proposition...
When she had finished, a Negro woman walked to the platform to hand Mrs. Waring a small bouquet of roses wrapped in tissue paper, was fondly hugged in return. The next day's brickbats were wrapped in white rage. "Beneath comment," snorted Dixiecrat Governor J. Strom Thurmond. On the floor of the state legislature, Representative Joe Wise, a 23-year-old Air Forces veteran, added: "We need no words such as hers from a damyankee...
...Voivodina I met a peasant who had well learned his lesson. "98%." I I said, asked him "98% of how what? many Of what horses he you had had. He before the answered: war, or of what you would like to have?" He repeated: "98%." He had no other comment...
...value of the dollar after World War II, as additional causes of the questionable financial future of the professional schools. He also mentioned the School of Public Health as being "in a precarious position," and added that "the importance of investigation and education in this field requires no comment." Fundraising for the school he said, has so far only been temporarily successful on year-to-year basis...