Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record crowd (750) at the Portland banquet waited expectantly, through 30 pages of a Morse speech, to hear the rumor confirmed. But the Senator confined himself to belaboring the Eisenhower Administration and raking the public-power policies of Oregon's No. 1 Republican, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. The audience cheered most loudly when Morse pledged allegiance to his hosts. "Liberalism in the Republican Party," he declaimed, "is dead. In 1954, I will campaign for the Democrats...
Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
...Munster, one evening last week, everyone seemed to be hurrying to Ludgerus Square. They poured through the streets of the bomb-blasted old German town, past posters proclaiming "The City Comes to Hear Pater Leppich!" and under streamers announcing "Pater Leppich Speaks." Staring down from smashed churches, lampposts and walls were countless pictures of a craggy-faced Roman Catholic priest...
...Digest variety, depend on it to escape the difficulties in their solutions and it is firmly enshrined in the American Success Story. A nation governed by philosopher-kings, with the entire population sharing the royal purple, is a splendid sentiment for commencements, one which graduating seniors will no doubt hear again and again...
...colleges. At the National Convention in August, the Legion's Un-American Activities Committee urged members to brush up on the reports of Congressional investigators and the Legion's own Firing Line--a self-styled guide to subversives. Armed with this information, the veterans found further encouragement in "Now Hear This!," an article appearing in the American Legion Magazine. It was a plea that Legionaires warn their fellows against red tinted lecturers, and if necessary, "Picket the meeting. Your fellow citizens . . . might voice displeasure at your ways and means' but they do wake...