Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river, the Mexicans of Piedras Negras placed their faith in an earthen dike; they were huddled in their straw-thatched adobe homes when the dike collapsed and the Rio Grande swept over. "I heard hundreds crying for help in the dark,'' said one witness. "You could hear houses collapsing, then screams, then nothing." More than half the town was destroyed...
...just breaks big brother's heart, anyway, to hear them carry on so. But what's to do? He grubs in Plutarch's Lives-one of the two books in the house, in which his wife has been teaching him to read-for a helpful hint, and finds the story of the Sabine women...
...little of Marx as they did of Hart & Schaffner, but many of them had got land under the agrarian program, and they could be counted on to defend it ferociously. Men like that who get weapons in their hands do not turn them back meekly; Guatemala would probably hear of them again...
...Lewis at the tavern: "We're ordering six bottles of vodka and practicing pouring it into tiny glasses until they almost overflow. We hear that's Russian style." Said Mrs. Pearce: "I'm installing...
...auto models four weeks ago (TIME, June 7) that G.M. blew a gasket. In Detroit new models are always a closely guarded secret, revealed to newsmen only on an off-the-record basis until the companies are ready to put them on sale. But the Journal refused to hear "off-the-record" information. It got its story from the tool-and-die shops of Detroit and from competing auto companies, pieced together a rough-and not always accurate-picture of what the new cars will be like...