Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madge took poison. She died 29 days later-mostly because Grand Dragon Stephenson, instead of getting the medical aid she begged for, held her prisoner for hours more. (Boasted he to a henchman: "This takes guts to do this, Gentry. She is dying.") Last week. Convict Stephenson, summoned to hear the decision, got his second chance (he was paroled in 1950, hauled back to prison shortly for lamming to Minnesota). Mumbled the Grand Dragon, long shorn of power, women, and his purple and gold vestments: "Thank you very much...
Saved by Two. These passions, and more, congealed when Mendès submitted his Indo-China budget. The Finance Committee scorned it, 25 to 14. When Mendès raced over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted...
...whether many pages of the score are not symbolic rather than expressive, or attemptedly expressive, of what cannot be communicated." The Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang found the work a "serious, moving and convincing piece." On one point, most of the critics were agreed: they wanted to hear Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard again...
...hear nothing but that you have Christmas dinner with me and Mike, it's like a mother I feel to all of my boys...
...hear no for your answer, do you hear me?" She wandered into Vag's room, pulled up the disheveled blankets, then smoothed the rumpled spread over, fluffing up the flat pillow. "We're not supposed to make beds, you know. Now, will you be coming to dinner with...