Word: talk
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Today it is idle to talk of being able to hold the line of the Elbe or the line of the Rhine," he told a group of University of Virginia students.* "Why should we waste valuable resources in making such an attempt? . . . We have never wanted a part of other people's scrapes . . . We can do well to mind our own business and interfere only where somebody threatens our business and our homes...
...among the other clubs.* Moreover, the anti-Chandler owners had had an unintentional ally in Happy himself. Four days before the voting, Happy had blabbed to reporters that he thought a total U.S. mobilization would very likely wipe out professional baseball. Club owners are allergic to that kind of talk...
...rollback on auto prices and hints that prices in other industries may also be controlled soon, food prices continued to skedaddle gaily upwards (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But though food comprises a big 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index (v. 4.8 for autos), there was little talk in Washington about slapping on mandatory controls. Reason: there was nothing that Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle could legally do to stop the rise in most foods...
...tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions in a placarded fleet of buses, military trucks and trains...
...talk sponsored by the United nations Council, he claimed that the 450,000,000 peasants on the mainland are discontent that they wish to be "delivered from Communism." Tsiang stated that "China is the key to the peace and freedom of Asia and Formosa is the key to a free powerful China...