Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definitely pro-American and highly regarded by those Vietnamese who are favorable to the West. Although he left me with a clear impression that he felt that Viet Nam will eventually fall to the Communists because of the clever Communist propaganda program directed to what the masses wanted to hear-independence and freedom from colonial rule-I felt that against this is the fact of the existence of strong anti-Communist organizations with large private armies having headquarters at Saigon . . . It is to the concerted power of such groups that we can hope for anti-Communist strength...
Noel, Noel. A while later, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen launched into a seasonal mercy speech. "I had a moment to spend downtown the other day," he said. "I could hear the Gramophones and radios pealing out the lovely words and phrases which somehow give animation to people in this one season and that somehow soften the spirit-Hark! the Herald Angels Sing and 0, Little Town of Bethlehem." The members of the Senate, suggested Dirksen, should soften their spirits toward Joe McCarthy...
...Houston, one of the biggest rich (estimated fortune: $200-$300 million) in the land of the big rich, Oilman-Philanthropist (University of Houston) Hugh Roy Cullen, flanked by his wife, three daughters and three grandchildren, sat down at a luncheon to hear himself eulogized by grateful city fathers. The fitting occasion: the publication of a Cullen biography (Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity; Prentice-Hall; $4). Orated Houston's Mayor Roy Hofheinz: "Houston is so proud to have been the place where the touch of the hand of Cullen's has been permitted to fall...
Illustrated Lecture. In Vaxjo, Sweden, while 500 people were gathered in a hall to hear a talk on traffic laws, police outside ticketed 40 of their automobiles for illegal parking...
...most obvious solution is not to expand at all. Although he admits, 'my mind is open ... I'd like to hear more discussion," Wilbur J. Bender '27, dean of Admissions, defends this course, and with Justification...