Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbed wire and police with Sten guns, sat the two bewigged and red-robed justices of the Kenya supreme court. Spectators in the courtroom were searched for guns. Hundreds of armed police and settlers strolled the streets of the remote little town of Kitale. The court was met to hear the appeal of Moscow-trained Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta and five of his loyal followers, sentenced to seven years' hard labor last April for being the brains behind the Mau Mau terrorist movement...
...really bothered Teherani was the growing realization that the West no longer seemed to care so much what happened to them, having just about exhausted its supply of sympathy, patience and surprise. It was particularly disconcerting, for example, to shout "Yankee go home" at some passing American and to hear him reply, "Of course, tomorrow...
...audience noticed that the canaries sometimes went through the motions of singing although they were making no audible sound. The birds were singing ultrasonically, and if Dr. Dolittle could go to Ohio State University this week, he would see the ultrasonic bird songs that he could not hear...
Professors Donald J. Borror and Carl R. Reese borrowed an elaborate audio-spectrograph from the university's astronomical observatory (where it was used to study the scintillations of stars), and used it to analyze bird songs recorded in the fields and woods. It could hear notes much higher than the human limit (about 18,000 cycles a second), and it could catch and write down on its paper tape the fastest variations in the songs...
...Apple Tree, a middle-aged Englishman remembers a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes...