Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes that he will soon recover." Wired Stevenson's rival, Estes Kefauver: "Terribly sorry to hear of your son's accident. My prayers and thoughts are with...
...Premier shot back acidly: "I thought the Nazis were gone from France." The crowd applauded and heard him out. At the end of his speech, Mendès, like all aspiring politicians, had to undergo a process known as the contradictoire, in which a candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back...
...entertained . . ." Another time, he observes doubtfully: "You know, I believe commercials are improving every day. Next week we hope to have another one-equally fascinating. And, if time permits, we shall bring you another story." He has also, on occasion, improved that dependable old gambit, "And now let us hear a word from our sponsor ..." When the commercial is over, the camera comes back to Hitchcock, finds him still determinedly counting: "five hundred and eleven, five hundred and twelve, five hundred and thirteen! Thank...
Most of them echoed Author Keyes's own womanly questions about the saint: "Did she hear the 'good tidings of great joy' . . . from some kindly neighbor who came back to Nazareth before Mary and Joseph? . . . Did Jesus spend much time with her in the little house where the angel had announced His coming? Did she invite John to stay there, too, so that the small cousins would be company for each other? Was it she who taught Jesus to read?" Author Keyes decided to search out the answers, and the result is just published: St. Anne, Grandmother...
...Hear This. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Loretta Day, 53, filed suit for divorce from former Navy Lieut. Commander Charles B. Day, 63, charged that he logged her comings and goings, made her spend her vacation "swabbing the decks" to pass inspection, would not let her enter his den without permission when red, white and blue pennants were displayed outside the door...