Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minh is a poet: Suddenly I hear the autumn flute sounding coldly like a signal on the screened hillside...
...Minh turned up in London, joined a secret society called "The Overseas Workers." Despite his poor health, he shoveled snow, stoked coal, and got a menial job cleaning silverware at London's Carlton Hotel restaurant. The great Escoffier was then master chef of the Carlton, and to hear the Communist legend-makers tell it, Escoffier took a fancy to the young Asian and called him over for a chat. "Put aside your revolutionary ideas," offered Escoffier to Ho, "and I will teach you the art of cooking." Loftily, Ho Chi Minh declined...
Then Jawaharlal Nehru ended the suspense over his own future, which was what these practical politicians most wanted to hear. He would remain as Prime Minister for the time being, Nehru said, but he would not run in the January elections for the Congress Party presidency. His choice for his successor was a surprise: an austere, little-known lawyer named Uchhrangrai Navalshanker Dhebar, who happened to be in the room "by special invitation," though not a member of the working committee. He was a far cry from the politicians around...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, lit cigarette after cigarette with shaking hands as he stood on the tarmac of Teheran's Mehrabad airport one evening last week. At ten-minute intervals, planes glided in to land. None of them brought the news the Shah was waiting to hear: word of his missing brother, 32-year-old Prince Ali Reza, heir to the Iranian throne...
...guided their daily scurrying. Auto horns blared their impatience at a moment's delay, exhaust pipes splattered with selfimportance, old friends called out greetings, and tardy law clerks beat sharp tattoos on the pavements with hurrying heels. In the cacophony that makes a great city, no one-would hear a cry for help coming from behind the clock face in the tower 100 ft. above their heads. On and around the clock's great hands moved, slow and inexorable, with never a slip...