Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straight-Line Theory. How could all this be? The 1,000-odd doctors who sat in on the polio symposium learned something of this from Dr. Salk himself. They had gone there, full of admiration and curiosity, to hear him and see him get a $10,000 award* for his achievements. They listened attentively, some with obvious puzzlement, as he read a long and tightly technical report. Its net: mass manufacture was not the same as making vaccine in his precisely controlled laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh...
Bearded Bear Hug. Billy said he would be content to draw 3,000 listeners in fun-loving, nominally Roman Catholic Paris. At his first public meeting, some 9,000 people flocked into the huge Vélodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same...
...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...
...officially making Canon 35 a part of their law; it was approved by the bar associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures (TIME. May 30). But last week, at a Colorado Springs meeting of the National Press Photographers Association, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. struck a powerful blow against...
...cannot believe that Miss Hale, in her twelve years of activity in the Communist Party," the majority of the Committee asserted, "did not learn the doctrine (of violent overthrow of existing governments) or hear it advocated, or know of the distribution of literature advocating it. . . We conclude that she did not tell the truth on April 23, that she did so in order to defend the Communist Party...