Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reversed Roles. From that position, the campaign of 1956 will get under way this week in earnest. At Gettysburg, Pa., more than 400 Republican leaders will gather to hear President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon launch the G.O.P campaign. At Harrisburg, a few miles to the north. Adlai Stevenson will put the Democratic campaign machinery in official motion with a 30-minute television and radio speech...
Fleur-de-Lis & Ham Hands. Finally with the null null Purchasing Director Bernard Green guarding the door against newsmen, the executive council members entered the conference room, settled themselves around a U-shaped table (its light blue cloth elegantly flecked with silverish fleur-de-lis) to hear genial Host Dave Dubinsky bring the major issue to a showdown. Said Dubinsky: "Let's decide whether we are going to endorse anyone...
Seattle had its revenge. Rhodes and Muncey headed for the winner's circle. They got there just in time to hear Miss Thrijtway disqualified for hitting a buoy. Bellowing with rage, Muncey swarmed up the framework of the judges' stand. It was bad enough to hear that he had been done out of the Gold Cup again; it was unbearable to hear that the new winner was Detroit's Miss Pepsi...
...visit beyond the Iron Curtain, Jazzman Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong displayed his gleaming teeth in a famed smile and growled, "It's in the bag. We'll play one-night stands in as many towns as they'll let us. A gang of Russians came to hear us when we played Berlin last year, and we're looking forward to meeting those cats again-because they dig ol' pops...
Small Voices. In Miami, caught making white lightning while free on bail after an earlier arrest, Moonshiner Lonnie Hastings mourned: "They is so much noise about a still, what with rats rustling around in the bushes and birds singing in the trees, that a feller can't hear them federal agents when they come around...