Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produce them itself-he professed not to be disturbed by the scientists' pledge not to help make or test them. ("None of these 18 gentlemen," he snapped, "has been asked by anyone to cooperate in this matter, and none will be.") But he was plainly angry to hear a Who's Who of German scientists declare that nuclear abstention would be best for Germany. Such a notion, he said, was a political matter, and "has nothing to do with scientific knowledge...
...feels that the State Department, through security officer Robert Cartwright, attempted to smear him by implying that his conscientious objection in 1944 was a draft-dodging device. Worthy believes that this is simply clouding the issue of his constitutional right to a passport and was very gratified to hear that Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming had said "Worthy's reputation as a citizen is unsullied, and the State Department owes him an apology...
...whole, the production suffers from an absence of humor and intensity, and adds little worthwhile to Yeats except a chance to see and hear...
...father of his country. In other plays he has sometimes shown a tiresome tendency to prate, but in this one he spends rather more than an hour in mounting the pulpit and clearing his throat. When at last he thunders forth his text, the congregation is ready to hear the wisdom of the ages. Instead, the message runs something like this: "Don't cheat on your wife. Because if you do, you'll never finish night school. And if you don't finish night school, brother, you'll spend the rest of your life...
...bleached boat would pass, rowed by a brown fisherman in tattered trousers, standing in the stern and twisting an oar in the water like a fish's tail. He would raise one hand in lazy salute, and across the still, blue water you could hear the plaintive squeak of the oar as it twisted, and the soft clop as it dug into...