Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inside-dopester knows, but he doesn't care. (High competence, low affect.) Riesman takes his text for the inside-dopesters from St. Paul, Acts 17:21: "(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new things...
Then Diem ordered Defense Secretary Le Ngoc Chan himself to relieve Hinh. General Hinh received the Defense Secretary politely, but pointed out that the Secretary was not an officer but a law clerk with no military knowledge. When Chan tried to give orders, staff officers blandly pretended not to hear him. A chastened Premier Diem summoned Hinh to plead with him. For answe, Hinh pulled a batch of telegrams from his pocket from more than 2,000 officers, declaring: "We protest against the unfair measures taken against you. We recognize you as our only leader." Said Hinh: "Now, Mr. President...
...racket that has come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves against the bow. Vibration was cut sharply...
Telephone Commercials. Chicago's Bargain Shopping Services, Inc. has launched tape-recorded commercials on the telephone. By dialing B.S.S.'s number, a shopper can hear plugs for six items billed as the day's "best buys." Advertiser's cost: $15 daily plus 1? a call...
...Marilyn was barely moving. Once she stopped, dipped under water three times, but kept going. By 8 p.m. the broad waterfront ahead of Marilyn was jammed with some 250,000 cheering people. To roars that she could not hear and salvos of rockets that she could not see, Marilyn touched the sea wall after nearly 21 hours in the water...