Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moss testified that she had never even heard of Communism until 1948, swore she "would have reported" anyone who asked her for a coded Signal Corps message. She was asked: "Did you ever hear of Karl Marx?" The crowd laughed as she answered: "Who's that...
...HARRINGAY FULL. This is standing procedure for cutting down the crowds that head toward sold-out stadiums for cup finals and big football matches. But the multitudes on their way to Harringay Arena in North London last week were not out for fun and games. They were flocking to hear Billy Graham's call to salvation...
Asked a Wall Street wag: "Did you hear about the lucky Texas oilman? He was drilling on his property and struck coffee." Last week General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House) and Standard Brands Inc. (Chase & Sanborn) each boosted the wholesale price of coffee again (to $1.11 a lb.), and new retail rises of 3? to 10? were on the way. People were getting used to gyrations of the jumping coffee bean...
Today, the trend has turned again, this time in favor of the Victorian way. People are beginning to miss Father. Denizens of a shaky world, they wish they could hear again the decisive tread of his square-toed boots, glimpse once more his stern and hairy visage. Gone is the old belief that when father and son come to blows, all right is on the son's side...
...Faction has taken over the proposed Conservative League, it apparently will be some time before a student organization represents the conservative point of view in the University. For the faction that wishes the League to be a forum for intellectual debate has withdrawn, leaving the Skunk element dedicated, to hear them talk, to fighting "Communism" by any means, including spying...