Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern half of Indo-China . . . It has added 500 million people to its arsenal of manpower. Most of these peoples of the Far East have been our friends . . . Through a dismal decade of false starts, fractional measures, loud policies and faint deeds, we have lost them. Again I can hear you say the conscience of America shall never be free until these peoples have opportunity to choose their own path...
Beyond dictating a few letters and holding two press conferences, he did little work. He made one important appointment: Beardsley Ruml, 57, was named Democratic finance chairman in charge of fund raising. A man with a fixed aversion to physical exercise, Ruml has told his friends, "If you ever hear of me dropping dead on a tennis court, you'll know it was because I was crossing it on my way to a Scotch & soda." For four years chairman of the board of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Ruml was chairman of the New York Federal Reserve...
Delegates will hear reports on internal and external policy and on party and state organizations. The delegates will pass resolutions approving the political line and the practical work of the Central Committee, and go home. Their function then will be to propagate the new "decisions" down through regional, district and local committees, to the tiny three-member party cells, and so to the mass of Russians...
Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily...
...rapt and rambling Hepburn household, no one ever changed the subject when young Kate came into the room: she heard all there was to hear. But freedom had its limits. When his children's squabbles got beyond the control of reason, Dr. Hepburn whacked them all impartially. Kate was spanked until she was nine, when she figured out how to stop the spankings: by taking them without crying...