Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although no flowers were permitted in the President's room, bouquets from well-wishers continued to pour into the corridor just outside (after being carefully inspected by the Secret Service). The previous day, the President had remarked to his wife and son that it would be pleasant to hear some "soft music." So with a nod from the doctors, Colonel Robert Schulz, the President's military aide, brought a tape-recording machine into Ike's hospital room. For an hour Ike listened dreamily to three albums: Moods in Music, Quiet Music, and Music for Daydreaming...
Nimbly crossing a stream on a log worn smooth by countless bare feet, a mass of moving color in their freshly laundered sarongs, they gathered before the thatched home of the village lurah (leader) to hear an election official explain the proceedings. At least half of them were women, often with naked, suckling babies. "Vote freely," said the official. "Whoever buys or sells votes will be prosecuted ... Do you understand?" The crowd murmured...
...nominal church background, this is an unconverted, untrained mass of people who make the problem of church membership comparable to what it was in the time of Constantine, when Christianity became a recognized institution of Roman society . . . Moreover, they and their clergy are too busy to stop to hear the Gospel...
...week long, West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik had been singing the blues. To hear him tell it, Penn State's Nittany Lions would gobble his hamstrung team in a single gulp. His backfield, if he could field one at all. would be an impromptu joke. Joe Cygler, Army's fleet left halfback, was out for the season with a snapped ankle. Dick Murtland, another halfback, was laid up with a charley horse. Bob Kyasky, the fastest back of all, was nursing a bad knee. Mike Zeigler had run afoul of Army discipline and was finished...
...real treat of the evening was a chance to hear two seldom performed and magnificent song cycles, Faurc's L'Horizon Chimerique and Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge. Gartside showed his ability in mezza-voce in the third of the Faurc songs, Diane, which was chillingly beautiful...