Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive...
Traveling by plane, train, boat and bus, White met a wide cross section of the population and was pleased to hear how many consider TIME their principal source of world news. Said a technician on the Mid-Canada Warning Line, who gets his copy of the magazine by helicopter: "There's a scramble when TIME comes in-and all along the line on the way in other guys have been reading it. Some of 'em cut out stories they like, and that's the worst part. I'll say this, though-it may arrive in tatters...
...grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping to hear himself baptized "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost," and to hear the congregation of about 40 break into song...
...known as the Agora. There, in 25 crowded acres which served them as a combination shopping center and community forum, the free and free-speaking people of Athens pursued a favorite pastime which consisted, in the words of St. Paul, of "nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." A favorite meeting place in the ancient Agora was the huge and handsome Stoa of Attalus, a shedlike structure of classic, colonnaded beauty which was presented to the city by Attalus. King of Pergamum, in gratitude for the lessons learned in Athens in his student days...
...question of how the South will go found most observers in agreement. To hear such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Nashville Tennessean tell it, the region will again become the pre-1948 Democratic Solid South. As to the organized-labor vote, the Washington Evening Star, the Minneapolis Star and the Philadelphia Inquirer held that it could not be "delivered" by labor leaders. The Chicago Tribune asked skeptically: "Is there a labor vote...