Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flourish of ceremony and sentiment, Britain's 41st Parliament-last week held its final session. Wigged and white-ruffled, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod summoned M.P.s to hear Queen Elizabeth's dissolution speech. Less than an hour later, the Queen's writs went out to 630 parliamentary constituencies, and Britain's 1959 election campaign was officially under...
...Orchestra, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Afterward, Shostakovich rushed to the stage to embrace Lenny. Pasternak went backstage to kiss Lenny, cried: "You have taken us up to heaven. I've never felt so close to the esthetic truth. When I hear you, I know why you were born." Said Lenny: "I adore this...
Almost anybody watching that scene could hear the trumpets...
...moon four minutes ahead of schedule: at 5:01 E.D.T. They also predicted boldly that it would hit in the region between the Sea of Tranquillity, the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Vapors. The way to tell that it had hit, they said, would be to hear its radio signals stop...
...Memorial Church service or in its worshippers. Before Buttrick's arrival, the church was headed by the dean of the Divinity School, who himself spoke only at rare times, the pulpit being occupied generally by itinerant preachers. It may be argued that as Harvard students will flock to hear a lecture by a man whose reputation is known, so will they walk the few steps to Memorial Church to hear a man who has been called one of the nation's best ten preachers. Polls and ministers have indicated--and even Newsweek admitted--that students are not especially interested...