Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey hair is as wild as a wad of steel wool. He has an instinct for rumpledness, and only the crafty vigilance of his wife keeps a reasonably presentable crease in his trousers. Nearly everything about Frank John Lausche that meets the unaccustomed eye seems politically wrong, and, to hear them talk, nearly everybody in Ohio is against him. Everybody, that is, except the voters...
...children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again, but the crowd kept pelting the car with rocks, shouting at Bennett, "Kill him! Kill him!" Says Autherine: "After that class I was not permitted to leave the building, for my own safety. I could still hear the crowd outside . . . Sometime later I was escorted back to Birmingham by the state police...
...that research be curtailed, that in the interests of preserving the traditional, residential character of Cambridge, "further expansion in the teaching of applied science and technology might best be left to other universities." Last fortnight 600 of the university's dons met in their marble Senate House to hear the opponents of the proposal state their case. Last week it was the turn of the supporters. When the arguments are all in, the senate will have to vote on just what sort of university Cambridge is to be. In view of Britain's technological needs, it will...
...critics gave him a pasting, and he admits now that it was well-deserved. "They wanted to hear a performer play every little note as written," he says ruefully. Back in Paris he devoted himself to high living, for which he had almost as much talent as for music. He shared an apartment with a French count, "had a little carriage and was thin as a stick because I never got to bed until morning." One evening Composer Paul (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) Dukas found him breakfasting in a cafe and insisted that he come at once...
...biggest concession is in the way G.M. will handle future franchise cancellations. The company is replacing the Dealer Relations Board, composed of top G.M. executives, which was set up in 1938. In its place will sit "an impartial umpire," probably designated by the corporation and the Dealer Council, to hear any dealer whose contract has been cancelled by a G.M. division. The company is also revising its standards for dealer sales performance, will give more weight to special problems in each dealer's territory. Beyond that, G.M. will increase the price discount given dealers on leftover stocks of cars...