Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, and to all but a few Russians, a plenary session of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party was held ten days later, somewhere in Moscow. On this committee sit Russia's 200 mightiest Communists, men with great rank and great fears. They gathered to hear the most significant news since Stalin's death 93 days before: the struggle for power among the Kremlin's titans had begun...
William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, served Elizabeth I as chief adviser and Lord High Treasurer. It was he who sent Mary, Queen of Scots, to the block. His son, Robert, brought the Stuart dynasty to England in 1603, lived to hear King James I dub him his "little beagle...
Next day 5,000 troops guarded the streets of Belfast as Her Majesty rode to the Hall of Parliament to hear an ancient and loyal address. As she walked in the sunny gardens of Queen's University, a second explosion came-this time in broad daylight at the city power station, about a mile away...
...hear him tell it in his Memoirs, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova of Venice was the greatest lover of all time. But the world has only a sketchy idea of what the great lover looked like. Only two known portraits have come down to posterity, both profiles, one painted by his brother Francesco when Casanova was a young man, and the other by an unknown artist showing him in old age. Last week in Rome the experts were sure that they had finally got a good look at Casanova; an amateur art-restorer named Armando Preziosi had turned up a new portrait...
...Neutrons. When Kramer was 65, in 1934, Government regulations required him to retire, but the Smithsonian would not hear of it. No one else had his ancient skills. He agreed to stay on "for a while" and be paid out of the Smithsonian's non-Government funds. While gamma rays and neutrons invaded the other instruments shops, his work continued as before. Once a day he telephoned his wife (when he first went to work for the Smithsonian, the telephone was still a novelty...