Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the blinker lights were flashing, and the loudspeakers aboard ship had an electrifying announcement: "Now hear this. All hands muster at quarters. There's a woman aboard...
...address wires, he seized a microphone and panted at the crowd: "I had a lot of things to say, but they will have to wait until a better time. I thank you for this great reception, but you have spoiled part of my happiness by this confusion." Unable to hear this gentle reproof because the mike was dead, the crowd at last dispersed, tired but happy. As Nehru sank into a comfortable seat in President Prasad's car, the police gathered up the casualties and carried them away on stretchers beneath an archway inscribed with the glowing words: "Welcome...
They flew the 30,000 miles mostly aboard Military Air Transport Service and Air Force planes. Unpressurized cabins brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
Folk songs, as Emrich has since discovered, cover a multitude of sins - historical and otherwise. To the accompaniment of fiddles, banjos, guitars, dulcimers, bottles, tin cans and washboards, one can hear love songs, laments and domestic satires...
What came out was a chorus of geisha girls singing and begging: "Roy, you butterfly, come back." Then, a deadpan announcement was made that the guests would next hear a tape-recorded report from Mr. Howard on the world situation...