Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minority Leader Joe Martin, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Minority Leader William Knowland and foreign relations leaders in both houses, the President sought no commitments. He had no immediate plan to call a special session of Congress during its pre-election recess. Instead, the group had been assembled to hear the issues discussed by John Foster Dulles before he flew to London for this week's Suez conference, and to get some idea of how grave the situation...
Good Episcopalian Bess Truman was horrified, called out to Harry to stop-but he seemed not to hear. Recalls Bess: "I had to walk before the Baptists and the Methodists and tell him to stop cutting the grass on Sunday morning. He grinned at me, shut off the mower, put it in the garage-and he has not cut a blade of grass since that Sunday morning...
...wants to debate,"' Thornton roared back, "I'll debate him-when and if he wins his primary fight. I'm going to ask him some technical questions about farming and I want real farmers to hear his answers. You have said that if the people of Colorado wanted a person who could do farm chores, they would have nominated Man Mountain Dean. You meant this as ridicule against every dirt farmer and his family in Colorado...
Said the witness: "I was sitting there on the ledge watching them. They laid their legs across two stones. Three men came down the line with hammers breaking their legs. They were using 2O-lb. hammers. I could hear the bones crack. They'd holler some, and turn aside, but they didn't holler too loud. The guard, he was a pretty good piece off, and he couldn't hear them. They asked me to join them, but I said...
...personal touch'' of a master of ceremonies has shaped Bill Alexander's whole ministry. "When Jesus walked the earth, people didn't line up in long rows to hear him." he said last week. "They gathered around him. So in our church we are bringing the congregation around the preacher . . . There shouldn't be any chasm between a preacher and the people. I'm no special holy person. I'm the same kind of guy as you are. The only difference is that I've taken as my profession the promotion...