Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed a line of bleachers that was empty except for one girl staring solemnly at the visitor. But later, when Eisenhower emerged from the governor's office, it became clear why there had been so few people on the streets; they had all gathered around the Statehouse to hear Ike speak. A great crowd-police estimated it at 50,000-packed the Statehouse lawn and the wide streets leading...
...Illinois, after a stop-off in Springfield, where he expressed thanks to Governor Stevenson for giving state employees time off to hear him, Ike moved on to Peoria to make one of his most effective campaign speeches. "The Administration answer to every question raised in this campaign," said he, ". . . is 'you never had it so good . . .' Tonight I want to ask you another question. Why shouldn't we have it better?" A Republican administration, he went on, would make things better by 1) fighting inflation, 2) reducing Government expenditures (and eventually taxes) and 3) encouraging new industrial...
...hours, Rising Favorite Georgy Malenkov (TIME, Oct. 6) harangued his audience with the old familiar routine, i.e., the "bosses" of the U.S. are bent on "world domination and war," and therefore the Soviet Union must "strengthen its defense capabilities." He and Molotov (same theme) spoke for the crowds to hear. But Stalin, whose words Communist strategists the world over will most closely attend, did not talk that...
...personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting in Korea, holds open house one day each week to hear the petty gripes of his lowliest subjects...
...lene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid her. Down deep she is convinced that, except for a miracle, "nothing will ever happen to me in all my life...