Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predawn Los Angeles 250 air miles away. It rattled through Las Vegas, Nev. 75 miles away, rumbled on through St. George, Utah 135 miles to the East, and sounded like distant war drums in Cedar City, Utah 175 miles from the blast. Some in Los Angeles claimed to hear the distant drums 20 minutes after the flash...
...syndicated column, fast-talking (about 215 words a minute) radio-TV Gossipist Walter Winchell gave an unusually candid explanation of his delivery speed: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really...
...scientists speak their convictions, so must educators, doctors, lawyers, and judges divorce their political views from their responsibilities, voicing them without restraint. When Americans hear their educated specialists as citizens, not experts, then politics will gain a new perspective...
...interest in music, has even made friends with his neighbor, an English professor from Temple University. "I used to think," says he, "that we businessmen were on one side-the really important one-and there on the other side were the intellectuals like the professor. Now, you should hear the talks we have in my rumpus room...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...