Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shone bright on old Kentucky homes, the meadows were in bloom, and the birds were making music all the day. But most Kentuckians could hardly no tice or hear last week above the political din that filled the state. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 57, Kentucky's governor in 1935-39 and U.S. Senator in 1939-45, was noisily on the comeback trail (TIME, April 11). "Happy" Chandler was wowing the voters everywhere with his own special brand of political minstrelsy. His opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Judge Bertram T. Combs, 43, of Prestonsburg, was still campaigning in a sober...
...hear them talk about him in little (pop. 6,000) Wasco, Calif., one would think that P. D. Spilsbury was both mayor and millionaire benefactor. Actually, he is a high school teacher of vocational agriculture, and his chief achievement is the Future Farmers of America chapter that he and his students have built up. To the citizens of Wasco, this is achievement enough. "By golly," says Fred Fry, co-owner of the Wasco Hardware Co., "we just couldn't get along without...
...himself, and had challenged the Russians to match it. The Russians had no answer. Though Faure and Eden were as startled as the Russians, Faure responded instantly and generously: "I wish the peoples of the world could have been in this conference room to hear the voice of a man speaking from great military experience. Had this been possible, they would believe that something had changed in the world in the handling of this question of disarmament. I am sure that this conference has scored its first victory over skepticism." Outside the conference room, Ike's proposal, devastating...
Another fallacy: "It is surprising how often you hear people remark behind the back of a patient suffering from neurotic anxieties or neurotic mood disorders, 'If he only pulled himself together-surely he could help it!' . . . Nobody would ever think that an abscess of the gall bladder can be treated by pulling oneself together, but not many people are prepared to look at nervous anxiety states with the same attitude . . . Many religious people use towards a neurotic patient a kind of spiritual approach of 'Pull yourself together!' ... By this attitude religion becomes a sort of mental...
...doctor, but you look like Tony Hart," the dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team of the New York stage from 1871 through 1885. Declared a New England guide book of the period: "A visit to New York would...