Word: whisper
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...choose to view the fighting in Korea today as a direct failure of this nation to project the idea of democracy in the world," said he. The Voice is nothing but a "hoarse whisper," and U.S. propaganda little better than "schoolboy essays." "Gentlemen, we would never think of matching a Willie Pep, good as he is, against a Joe Louis in a ring fight in this country; but that is what we did in our propaganda fight with Russia...
...lone 7½-kilowatt transmitter is only a whisper compared to the worldwide 58-station network of Voice of America. But RFE, a branch of the National Committee for a Free Europe founded last year by a group of private U.S. citizens, expects to make up in pungency for its lack of volume. Explains Banker Frank Altschul, chairman of RFE: "Unhampered by diplomatic restrictions, we can slant our programs in a more definitely anti-Soviet way than the Voice...
...absence of Ted Schroeder, who is too busy with his refrigeration business to defend his title this year) is Billy Talbert himself, past his prime at 31 and a diabetic. Third and fourth seeded are Jaroslav Drobny, the self-exiled Czech with a singing serve which subsides to a whisper in an endurance match, and South African Eric Sturgess, a solid, stolid player of the old base-line school...
...41st day of her coma last week Patricia's father suddenly heard her whisper one word: "Mama." Apparently she was answering his repeated question. Then she slipped back into unconsciousness again...
...this optimism was confirmed last week by the still growing boom. In May, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production soared to 193, within a whisper of 1948's postwar high of 195. Said FRB: production would probably set a new record in June...