Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exemplary husband. After the family learned the happy news, even brother Kell had to admit that his prospective brother-in-law was no oddball. "I don't think we can make a sculler out of him," he said. "He's not tall enough. But I hear he's a terrific skin-diver...
...Because rabbis exercise absolute control over marriage and divorce laws, some Israelis have already found a Reno in Cyprus. Israel's state-owned trains do not run on the Sabbath, and the citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism, Utopian pioneering of the land, and a generous belief in the nature of man. Israel...
...FREE) at which the policies of his one-party government are submitted for general approbation. Last week in the capital of Pnompenh, 8,000 "congressmen"-shopkeepers, farmers, tricycle drivers, artisans and housewives-assembled in a huge scarlet tent, set up among the peach-pink and ochre-tinted pagodas, to hear their princely Premier outline his new foreign policy...
...confirm both points. He has addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia of Hemingway...
April. Dean Henry will predict: "In five years the whole college will be on advanced standing." McGeorge Bundy will refuse to become president of Harvard as he believes he may hear a call to come to the aid of his country. An M.I.T. freshman will successfully torpedo the Harvard crew while a scientific Yardling will attack the Jubilee with tear gas bombs. F. Skiddy von Stade will announce the use of Pinkerton...