Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to show that he was in charge of the defense of Western Europe? One day, at a full-dress conference on the big picture in Europe, he answered their question. After listening to repeated reports on Soviet strength, he abruptly announced that he was damned tired of hearing how helpless the West was before Soviet power. With eyes flashing, he told the men of SHAPE: "We are here to build the defenses of Europe, not to wring our hands at how bad they are ... I want to know from day to day what each one of you is doing...
...last week was a blind woman named Irene Meyer, 33, from Gaithersburg, Md. Two years before, she had heard him sing Radames in Aïda at Manhattan's Metropolitan. Stricken with incurable diabetes, Irene told friends in Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated by The Committee to Enable Irene to Listen Again to Her Tenor...
...service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear him, at twilight, singing segregation's old unsweet song. But the popularity of a cause rarely cuts any ice with John W. Davis. One of his permanent heroes is Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who (at 71) defied popular opinion by defending Louis XVI before a French...
Someone ventures a suggestion. "Oh no, I don't agree," says Montgomery, even though the someone may be of exalted rank. "Not the case at all. That's not professional." His eye swings around the room. "Let's hear what Admiral Mountbatten has to say about that. Dickie! Dickie! Ah, there you are. Let's hear what you think...
...casual saunter with which the British team goes out to greet the returning climbers and to hear the fate of its expedition will go down in anecdote as a classic underplay in the British tradition. When Lowe, the first of the three to come down, gives the sign for thumbs up, a thrill shoots through the audience; and when the camera picks up Hillary and Tenzing, their faces shining like those of men who have been in paradise, it is a hard heart that will not beat faster, and a hard face that will not break into answering smiles...