Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to a letter from the Council group (the letter was read aloud in a meeting of the new department), the department said, "There is strong sentiment for tutorial. . ., providing it does not entail sacrifice of our other objectives. (But) any revision of policy . . . cannot be settled for some weeks...
...Considered Proposal. In the beginning all had divergent views. At times the thinking that went on aloud was "so painful" that only the tactful intervention of two secretaries with coffee could break the tension. Discarding this as inadequate and that as unsound, they slowly sweated through to unanimous agreement about what was most workable...
...predicted World War II: "I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world. . . . There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action. . . . But no one would listen...
Last week, in Fulton, Mo., in a husky, dogged voice, Winston Churchill cried aloud again...
...secretaries and his son take turns reading books aloud to him or taking dictation. He is writing an autobiography, a history of American thought, one or two other books at the same time. Last week appeared The Faith of a Liberal,* a provocative collection of his random essays. As much as a book can, it captures the flavor of Cohen's Socratic search for "not answers but understanding...