Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This historic message was sent off quietly by the Secretary of State from his hotel in Paris, was received and read by the President at a small gathering of Pennsylvania Republicans in Gettysburg. Next day the President decided to hold a special Cabinet meeting to hear Dulles' report. With an election a week away, the Paris achievement could have been given a lot of sizzle. It deserved better treatment: it could have been the peg for an immediate, politically potent radio-television report to the people...
...Following the course of the avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon...
...Elbow. For a couple of minutes in the last round, the Kid came to life. But it was too late to impress the judges. Later, in his dressing room, Gavilan really turned it on. He bawled, bellowed for justice and retired from the ring in rapid succession. To hear the Kid tell it, Referee Pete Pantaleo massaged him in the clinches with a bony elbow; Blinky Palermo polished him off just by being there. "I give boxing back to Philadelphia," wailed...
...Havilland Aircraft Co., builders of the Comets, could not have been happy to hear the results of the inquiry, which placed the blame for the crashes on faulty design and manufacturing methods. But Britain's aircraft industry might well be proud of the inquiry's utter frankness. Its designers are already using the Farnborough testing methods to make sure that such disasters will not happen again...
...mightily in the middle of a road company mezzo's big aria and overpowered an ill-fated Mignon. After that impressive debut, Elsa grew up poor, plain and plump. Her father was an insurance man and part-time drama critic. But she could play the piano and, to hear her tell it, attracted people "by the gaiety I radiate as naturally as I breathe." R.S.V.P. is Elsa's amusing, gossipy story of how the poor, plain, plump girl from Keokuk, Iowa radiated so much gaiety and attracted so many celebrities that she became a celebrity herself...