Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holiday exertions with the cheerful equanimity of a man who has already made his big decisions. On two successive days the President shot 18 holes of golf, and, although his game was not up to its pre-coronary level, his good humor remained unruffled. "You are going to hear a heck of a lot of laughter today," he told Glen Arven Country Club Pro Johnny Walter at the start of the first 18. "My doctor has given me orders that if I don't start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going...
...weapons of many kinds. And, worst of all, she has now challenged us to an economic duel for the great uncommitted peoples of the earth. Yet, at a time when our rigid, inflexible policy is the most precarious it has been in many years, what do we hear from our faltering Government? . . . We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinksmanship-the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss...
Next came an attack on Ike, the most outspoken Stevenson has made during his pre-convention tours. Said Adlai: "We hear the President declare he hasn't read what his Secretary of State says . . . And from Washington, Gettysburg and Southern plantations we hear the President expressing renewed confidence in his team. To put it politely, I must say that the head coach seems to have missed some plays and not to be too sure of the score...
...this week's report on rhythmical Trinidad (see Music), however, Harman took his ear directly to the source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else...
...actually prevail if Autherine comes back, no one could tell. Led by a racist sophomore from Selma, Ala. named Leonard Wilson, a Tuscaloosa White Citizens' Council was determined to do everything possible to keep her away. But Autherine herself was equally determined. While waiting for the courts to hear the contempt charge she filed against the university trustees for suspending her, she has been living and studying at nonsegregated Talladega College (enrollment 275), 118 miles from Tuscaloosa. She has even turned down a scholarship offer from the University of Copenhagen. Said she: "I keep hoping and praying that this...