Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aldrich said yesterday he would hear the defense case before ruling on the defense motion, presented Monday, to dismiss the entire indictment. The defense case, which will now concentrate on an effort to overthrow the remaining counts will therefore begin in the Federal Building at 10 a.m. today and proceed throughout...
...same time, he refused to hear defense arguments on throwing out the entire indictment. Even if he had "serious doubts" about the validity of the government's case, he said, he would defer a ruling until "all the evidence" had been presented...
...story of World War II, The Call to Honour, he plainly sees himself as more savior than soldier and ends on a mystical note: "Poring over the gulf into which the country has fallen, I am her son, calling her, holding the light for her . . . I can hear France now, answering me . . . Ah! mother, such as we are, we are here to serve...
...seems always to have extended from his back through his mind. The Call to Honour carries the De Gaulle story only to mid-1942, but the tone is set, and it is as annoying as it is undoubtedly sincere. Even a hero's worshipers must be embarrassed to hear him refer to his wartime broadcasts as a "priestly duty," and to meet the mock-modest estimate: "In the struggle for liberation the one who answered for everything was still, in the last resort, my poor self...
...their hearts both sides have become tired of the stubbornly continuing conflict. The revolutionary has begun to suspect the motives of the revolution, the chief of police is sick of police power. In the end, Author Lewis seems to echo the policeman's plea: "Let's hear no more about Reds or Falangists either. Haven't we as a people the greatness of heart to admit it's possible we were both wrong...