Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counteract all this, says Eells, the U.S. should double its own efforts in the field of education. But in doing so, it could well take a cue from the Soviet. In not one of the countries that he visited, says Eells, did he hear of "any reports of cuts in the staff or services in any of the Soviet information services and libraries...
...Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary." The men of the Seventh Army Symphony are required to perform no Army duties "except to wear the uniform properly," and except for their own tubas, trumpets and trombones they hear few commanding tones from the brass. In return, the experiment has more than paid off in prestige and honor for the U.S. occupation forces. "We're expected to produce good music," says Conductor Schermerhorn confidently...
...classical age. But by approximately 1957, visitors to Athens may stroll under the columns and imagine what the place was like when the Apostle Paul, who also strolled in the Stoa, chided the lively Athenians for spending "their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
...ever the nation gets a chance to hear he voice of the U.S. public-school teacher, it seldom hears it so clearly as when the powerful (561,708 members) National Education Association holds its annual convention. Last week, as some 20,000 teachers and administrators wound up their N.E.A. convention business in Manhattan, they did so with the well-earned satisfaction of having given the country a piece of their mind...
Soon after, she published a book of poetry that showed a feeling ear for the English she could not hear, and then set forth on the first of the long lecture tours-speaking in a sort of strangled soprano, which is the closest she can come to intelligible English, with Teacher Sullivan translating-that were to make her name a household word...