Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow Americans," concluded the President, "the kind of era I have described is possible." The great auditorium in San Francisco was hushed, and from that hush had come a voice that Americans of all faiths and factions could hear and understand, as rarely before, in the tumult and shouting of U.S. election years...
Shocked and angry. Desai declared in a strained voice: "So long as the citizens of Ahmedabad do not hear me peacefully, I shall not take food. If Gujarat is eager to cremate me, I am ready. Let it prepare my funeral pyre." Then Desai, who normally eats only one meal a day anyway, hurried off to his brother's Ahmedabad home and began fasting...
...screen. Legmen still rushed to the telephone to report news breaks to the wire services, but the first United Press bulletin on the Truman endorsement of Averell Harriman came from the rewrite man who saw it on TV. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's convention speech was hard to hear in the hall, so the Associated Press used TV sets for coverage. In New York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen and rushed it to the composing room for its table of how the states voted. For the word reporters, TV's advantage...
...official taps on the saucer and calls, "Are you there?" and the tune that cuts in immediately is: "I hear ya knockin' but ya can't come in." Announcer: "Have you come to conquer the world?" Tune: "Don't want the world to have and hold." Announcer: "The Secretary of Defense has just said_" Tune: "Ain't it a shame?" Announcer: "I believe the spaceman has a final parting word." Tune: "See you later, alligator...
...political orators began addressing themselves to the state of the economy this week, it was clear that between now and November the beleaguered U.S. voter will hear some wildly confusing statements about how he and the economy are doing. Before the Democratic Platform Committee in Chicago, Leon H. Keyserling, lawyer and politically nimble chief economist for the Truman Administration, accused the Eisenhower Administration of sustaining a "cultivated economic slack" designed to eliminate the inefficient small farmer and small businessman and to "keep labor in its place." But from Washington came new forecasts of continued prosperity...