Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suspicion . . . dies hard. And too many businessmen still show the whites of their eyes every time they hear the words, 'Government program.' Automatically, they...
...feet to set the record straight in his clear, flat voice. If goaded, his reply is quick and effective. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's lanky and self-confident economist and Butler's predecessor at the Treasury, pricks him with the barbed wish that some day he may hear a Butler speech which does not talk about "unity, stability, flexibility, and all the other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler retorts, "to which the Right Honorable Gentleman and his friends attach little importance." And a rare smile lights Rab's wintry face, as chill...
...paper work slows up vital decisions, such as on rate increases, for months and years. The ICC now has 560 rate cases pending, some of them filed as far back as 1952. Moreover, the commission is so scrupulously fair and long-suffering at its hearings that it will hear all witnesses at any length. As a result, shippers and farm lobbies know that they can filibuster a rate increase merely by bringing in more witnesses. Meanwhile, the railroads' costs have already gone up. Since 1945, the delay in rate cases has cost the railroads more than $500 million...
...began when a freshman, returning to the Yard from a Dunster House interview, passed Feeney and two of his female followers on the Feeney side of Bow St., and said loud enough for them to hear, "Wouldn't it be fun to throw a rock through Mr. Feeney's window...
...Studio One, U.S. Steel Hour and Philco Goodyear TV Playhouse argue that the theaterlike thrill of live TV cannot be captured on film, and that live performances hold more excitement and spontaneity. Replies Film-Maker Hal Roach-"Who wants to see a stagehand in the wrong place, or hear an actor muff his lines? That's what spontaneity means...