Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
...Summoned eight military advisers (including his old friend, retired General George Marshall), six Congressmen and four Defense Department officials to hear a report from returning General James Van Fleet this week...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee moved out of its cramped old quarters in the Capitol into the spacious hearing room of the Banking & Currency Committee to hear Secretary of State John Foster Dulles defend the President's resolution on enslaved peoples (TIME, March 2). Nonetheless, the seats were filled, reporters were jammed against television cameras, and standees rimmed the room by the time Dulles took the witness chair. First he read a carefully prepared statement, setting forth the high principles of the resolution. Then he pointed out the pitfalls of flatly repudiating the Yalta or Potsdam agreements of World...
...hear some sections of the U.S. press tell it, Senator Joseph McCarthy took over the State Department last week from a shaken and cowed John Foster Dulles. Instead of defending the department against McCarthy's latest onslaughts as head of the Senate's Permanent Investigating Subcommittee, Dulles-so the stories ran-had given way to a mood of "panic" and "surrender," pulled a "Munich" and taken "cowardly flight." As a result, said the reports, the Voice of America was "dead," and departmental employees, their morale shattered, were trying to "fade into the wallpaper...
...time I meet a foreigner, the first question I am usually asked is something about freedom of speech, or freedom of the press. At first I used to try and explain that, compared with some of my friends who went north, the answer was definitely yes. Now, when I hear these questions, I would like to slap these people's stupid faces . . . Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of this, freedom of that. Here in Korea, now, such questions are idiotic. Freedom, my friend, is a very relative thing. Now we have a little-more than...