Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said in the Aug. 2 Cinema review of Rear Window that Grace Kelly has "a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear." What does the abbreviation stand for ... Upper High Falutin...
...South there is a general determination to ignore, defy or circumvent the ruling, but no particular plan has been adopted. Deep Southerners are sulkily marking time, waiting for the Supreme Court's next move, which will be a decree outlining federal procedures for enforcing desegregation. The court will hear arguments on this subject in mid-October, may take several months to write its de cree...
...find time to glance at the People's Daily leading article of July 24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between the two countries in the coming year if strategic controls were abolished. The impression left by Mr. Tsao in London last month was that...
...defense of U.S. broadcasting. Testy Sir Thomas Beecham took four columns in the Sunday Times to tell his countrymen what was right about U.S. radio-TV. Musically, he said, the U.S. was far ahead, with weekly broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera six months a year and "the opportunity of hearing and seeing the great majority of the famous violinists, pianists, cellists, etc. of our time, whose respective fees are beyond the means of any other system outside the U.S.A.'' Conceding that these blessings were accompanied by "a good deal of rubbish," Sir Thomas nevertheless pointed out that there...
...Oscar, in 1954, and about the same time had her nose fixed up by Paris surgeons. "I would give up everything for my career," she says, "and I mean everything." She has a speaking voice that would send her back to Genoa if her fans ever got to hear it. ¶ Rossana Podesta (35, 21, 33) stands 5 ft. 4 in., has dark hair and eyes, and is about the nearest thing the Italians have to Terry Moore. Born in Tripoli, North Africa, she wanted to be a doctor until she was discovered by a movieman in a swimming pool...