Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear you like photo finishes," cried Anthony Eden to the horse-betting Nottingham crowd. "All right, but just get the right man ahead this time." Women craned and gawked to get a good look at the handsome, well-tailored Prime Minister of Great Britain, up there on the crude wooden platform. It began to drizzle. Eden patted his grey hair. "My word, it's rain. Well, never mind, I'm sure the sun will shine again." There were chuckles from the crowd. "The cost of living has gone up much less under us than under the Socialists . . ." Eden...
...sounds like a college party; doesn't it?" said J. Lawrence Dohan '55 as he approached the door to "G-3," a ward high inside Metropolitan State Hospital at Waltham, Mass. "Well, it isn't, he continued, without smiling. "It's a mental hospital, and the sounds you hear are coming from patients who were considered hopeless cases a little while...
Every day, for the past 15 years, Mrs. A. had been sitting in a hard wooden chair at the end of the hospital corridor. With her dress forlornly covering her hear, she had never spoken, rarely moved except when forced. One of the doctors compared Mrs. A. to a near-sighted woman hit by a car on a busy street: "She is now standing on the psychotic side," he said, "and is afraid to cross to the normal side. Everything looks out of proportion--the street wider, the cars bigger, the danger greater. So she turns her back...
Obstructing such a development is the present zoning law for the area, which will not permit construction of an apartment building. The City Planning Board will hear the objections of any present residents living on land bordering the proposed development before it considers changing the zoning restrictions...
...ball can be carried, thrown or batted with the crosse (lacrosse stick); there is no rule against kicking it either. The rugged character who breaks for the goal while cradling the ball in his stick runs a gauntlet of swinging sticks. Sooner or later he is sure to hear the loud battle cry: "Deck him!" For, by and large, body checking is also perfectly legal...