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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the strongest language used by Ike since his 1952 campaign; it was the sort of talk Republicans across the U.S. had been waiting to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: We Shall Ride Forward | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...thing, resign themselves to at least two years of an R.O.T.C. course, since this is compulsory at all state universities, and they must thereby accept a campus atmosphere tinged for all with regimentation and militarism. ("It is disconcerting," said one professor, "to be talking about Plato and hear 'tramp, tramp, tramp' outside the window...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Fast Expanding University of Massachusetts Seeks to Discard Outworn 'Cow College' Label | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...week-old distribution system may seem a little like carping, especially since we haven't forgotten the ceaseless waiting in endless lines that took so much time in past years. Besides eliminating this dreary business, the new plan also saves the H.A.A. the amount of time it took to hear the myriad requests from each person. The process of putting all the applications from one class together, mixing them up, and assigning seats at random is eminently fair and more efficient as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Tangle | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...Liberal Union's efforts for a combined meeting stemmed from disagreement at its Executive Board meeting Monday night, when there was great disagreement over HLU endorsement of Foster Furculo, Democratic candidate for Senator. The HLU proposed the combined meeting in order to hear Saltonstall and the other candidates as well as Furcolo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democratic Club Rejects HLU Bid For Combined Meeting With HYRC | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...first curtain soon batters that hope. The cast strides back and forth about the stage, tearing into marriage and cold pills--the two whipping boys of the plot. Actually, this discussion is inoffensive, the kind of vapid pleasantries you would expect to hear from likeable people bantering between themselves. It is nothing for 1,000 people to be eavesdropping on. When the hero's lady love absents herself saying she'll be gone an hour and will count the minutes, the hero rejoins, "There should be sixty." And so it goes...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Tender Trap | 9/28/1954 | See Source »

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