Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Razor at the Throat." Returning, Joe said that "an Iron Curtain has been pulled down." He cried that "we can only hear evidence about the conference that is damaging to Mr. Cohn, Mr. Carr and myself. Suddenly, halfway through this, we are not going to get the complete story." The fact of the Administration conference, said McCarthy, cast new doubt on who was really behind the "issuance of the smear that has held my committee up for weeks and has allowed Communists to continue in defense plants, handling secret documents, with a razor at the throat of the American people...
...military hospital, and three men were well enough to tell Dienbienphu's last story."It seemed as though thousands of shells were striking our hospital bunker," said Private Michel Champougny."One shell exploded right inside another bunker, and the wounded were buried alive. Outside we could hear the screaming of the Viet Minh and the answering shouts of the French. Everyone was fighting, hand to hand. But around 6 p.m. there was silence, and we knew the battle was over. "At 7 p.m. some Viet Minh soldiers, their helmets camouflaged with leaves, came into our bunker...
...There are works I used to like and can't hear any more. I literally don't hear them. The Beethoven symphonies, for example. After having heard them a few hundred times, it's as if I hear nothing but noise . . . Music is dying. The radio, that infernal machine, is helping to kill it. Always, always the same things . . . A composer needs contact with his listeners. Does he ever obtain it? No. They play Tchaikovsky . . . And still I'm one of the few composers who like music...
...Republicans will also hear Sen. Ralph Flanders (R-Vt.) this week. His talk is scheduled Friday at 4 p.m., in the Dunster Senior Common Room...
...with the governor and show that it is a stable and permanent political force. For a beginning, they wanted to see the government put some of its new $7,000,000 rehabilitation fund into low-income housing for the poor who now live in tin-roofed packing-crate huts. "Hear, hear," murmured the black men in their patched shirts and faded dungarees. Britain's newest experiment in developing responsible self-rule was already under...