Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have all the Yalta-lovers telling us that it is they who were the champions of the Europeans all along and they feel very strongly that nothing should be done to hurt American prestige in Europe. Of course, we didn't hear them say that when our Government was forcibly repatriating hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Soviet paradise as late as 1948. Yes, 1948, when every "illegal border crosser" was arrested and turned over to the Soviet authorities within 48 hours.... But I believe the American people should recall what was the morality, intelligence and intellectual honesty...
...what if you should hear this passage: "You give me no chance, no chance, no chance, no chance. (Come on give me that chance.) No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance. (Come on give me one chance.) No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance. Umwamumunwam." Play around with that one a little...
...course, the Soviet students might have enjoyed confirming some of the observations of their experts. As things stand now, they will unfortunately never get a chance to attend classes where theology "is offered to substitute for scientific knowledge and a scientific world view." Nor will they be able to hear President Pusey as he "stands at the right hand of senator McCarthy and calls on the benediction of God for the destruction of scientific and educational institutions...
...even less than both of you. What we need is some real imagination. Some of those men in Hollywood should be able to give it to us-men like Cecil DeMille and Walt Disney and Louis Mayer. I'm going to get some outside help. You wait to hear from...
...downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what he [means] ... He was a good detective, almost as allusive as T. S. Eliot." Ex-Newspaperman Grafton has managed to light...