Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basso Nicola Moscona) paces nervously, dressed in evening clothes, redlined Inverness cape, with top hat and cane. Three grips stand ready at the trapdoor platform. Another maestro, with a score on his lap, sits near by. Mephistopheles clears his throat, begins la-la-la softly. The maestro, straining to hear the orchestra, says, "Ready!" and Mephisto steps onto the platform...
...eagerly devoured by enthusiastic football fans. An ad extolling your book would create a sensation which could be equalled only by a 90-yard run. Enclosed is the Lampoon's rate card and schedule of publication dates with the Yale number underscored. We hope to hear form...
Just as I was going to inform her that I wasn't a lawmaker, a small, obese man brushed past us on his way down the steps. She left me and pounced on him as he reached the bottom. As I hurried away, I could hear her voice behind...
...White House, last week, a group of foreign students assembled to hear a little speech by the President. "We want you," said the President, "to study in the friendliest of atmospheres and go back to your country with the certainty that what you are carrying back is not only a new understanding in nuclear science and reactor engineering, but a new understanding of the friendship that all America feels toward each of your countries...
...enslavement. Women ("the great vacationless class") simply must take time alone if they are to regain this "timeless inner strength" which "we [have] been seduced into abandoning . . . for the temporal outer strength of man. " As she picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell reminds her of the importance of solitude. Finally, the paper nautilus recalls...