Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turned up in Pakistan in 1949, broke and all but friendless, was jeered at as a "Spy for India!" and "Disruptionist!" He cockily replied that he meant to be Prime Minister, gradually patched together a shaky coalition of dissident factions, told each what he thought they wanted to hear (including Nehru-type neutralism), won local elections in East Pakistan and recouped his personal prestige. One day last September Suhrawardy was called in by President Iskander Mirza (who more or less runs Pakistan with army and civil-service support), was installed as Premier of what Mirza calls "controlled democracy...
...Continuing an English legal tradition, Virginia still maintains Hustings Courts in Roanoke, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Richmond, which generally have concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts, normally hear criminal cases arising within each city or the area one mile beyond the corporate limits...
...just lend your body to anyone you know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother, do you think these things are really quite suitable?" Producer Murray thinks so. Says he: "When women see Kathryn on a trapeze, they visualize themselves on a trapeze." Says Kathryn, "I hear I get a salary, but I haven't seen it." Arthur gives it as $1,500 weekly and says that he deposits it in their joint bank account...
...College Observatory will hold its annual summer "Open Night" this Monday, the Summer School has announced. Visitors will be taken on a tour of the Observatory and will hear a lecture on "Meteorites" by John S. Rinehart, assistant director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
...That, Pop? In Chicago, Psychologist Stanley Mitchell, telling parents that they could eliminate juvenile delinquency by whispering good thoughts into their youngsters' ears as they slept, said: "The kids wouldn't hear, but their subconscious minds would, and this would build a solid relationship between parents and child...