Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncommitted once again was blonde, beauteous Faye Emerson (No. 3 of Elliott Roosevelt's four wives), who last May appeared in New York's star-studded Cit-izens-for-Eisenhower Rally, but now wants to hear more about Adlai Stevenson...
M.P.s leaned forward to hear the "radical" proposals that would haul Britain from the quicksands of near-bankruptcy. But they heard none. Instead, Butler dryly recited the twice-told tale of how the Tories have somewhat staunched the drain on gold and dollar reserves-a story of more austerity and cuts in imports, a slight boost in coal production, and an end to cheap credit. Now, continued Butler, Britain's $13 billion rearmament program, begun so bravely in early 1951 by the Socialists (with full Tory support), will assume under the Tories "a new pattern." Defense production would...
...Today, on his feast day, I was thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas. If he came to America, he would certainly be well received. But he would have to teach 20 hours a week, hear confessions every Saturday, give two sermons every Sunday, and make three speeches a month. Under those conditions, how could he become St. Thomas...
...Lotus' observations convinced him of a second point. He did not hear the faint, soft pop of opening petals that has echoed for centuries through Japanese literature. Some years ago on a summer morning, the skeptical scientist dragged recording equipment to the shore of a lotus pond. There he assured himself that the modern flower blooms in silent beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even...
...many viewers preferred to hear radio commentaries and watch their silent TV sets...