Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driving slowly through the streets I could hear involuntary gasps of surprise and admiration from people who happened to look up and see a gleaming new car instead of the rattletraps they're accustomed to seeing. Every time I parked, crowds of people gathered around the car talking about it. "There must be room for at least eight people," said some. Others remarked, "I hope some of the people at the 'People's Factory' are taking a good look." Several times police had to clear a path for traffic. Little boys would run along behind...
Still others sat on the terrace of a restaurant across the road, where they sipped beer and munched sandwiches, still able to see the top half of the screen and hear the sound. The restaurant's business boomed so hugely that the grateful owner sold beer to the Cinerama staff at cut-rate prices...
...farmers in the drought area, auto dealers, grocers and other merchants across the state . . . The figures of these men and women of Illinois whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...
...tournament traveler needs more than a smooth supply of shots; he must also get along with the station-wagon set. "You don't have to worry about my boys," Coach Kramer told the U.S.L.T.A. "They dress right, act right and talk right." Tennis fans were happy to hear that the boys play well...
Youngdahl has never shown that he is nor qualified to hear the Lattimore case. He dismissed than indictment last year because he considered the counts too vague for prosecution, not for any judgment of Lattimore's innocence or guilt. Youngdahl himself is a man with an impeccable record of past public service; regardless of his personal feelings about Lattimore's guilt, it is hardly likely that he would let them influence the wholly legal decision of whether or not the counts against the Far East expert are concrete...