Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy-Army hear ings finally seemed at hand. What damage or good had they caused? The original charges and countercharges had become all but secondary issues, and, with the testimony largely in, they could easily be disposed of: CJ Did Senator McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, try to get favored treatment for Private David Schine? Despite McCarthy's denials (see above), most TV-viewers would agree that they did. They would also agree that for a sickeningly long time, Army Secretary Stevens went out of his way to accommodate McCarthy and Cohn...
Almost everywhere the old Roosevelt magic worked; in Batavia, with 1,767 registered Democrats, 424 bought tickets to hear a dinner speech and hundreds more were turned away. By last week he had picked up 200 upstate delegates; he expected to have the full majority of 510 (out of 1,018) by the Sept. 21 nominating convention...
...times daily. At cozy meetings, attended largely by neighborhood housewives, Jimmy drank coffee and served up charm along with his political pitch. He knew what the assembled ladies would be thinking about. So a lesser candidate would carefully bring up the subject, and suggest that everyone would like to hear Jimmy's side of the story. Then Jimmy would explain gently that his wife had blackmailed him into signing an untrue confession. If pressed, he would add: "To me, public life is a profession. If you were going to seek medical advice, you wouldn't ask the doctor...
...even done something, in its quiet way, about Joe McCarthy's overblown reputation overseas. Jim Watch-hurst, of Warrington, England, remarked: "When we in Warrington hear of Wisconsin, U.S.A., we do not think of the junior Senator but of Bob Linse, the Rotary-sponsored student at our University of Manchester...
Another mechanical feature of the appointment system--the ad hoc committee--is likewise in the hands of the President and Dean. They appoint special committee of qualified men, often from outside the academic life, to come to Cambridge for a day to hear witnesses tell why a certain instructor should be added to the permanent Faculty...