Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is likely to be the last time that I shall attend your convention." A long-drawn "Nooo" burst from the crowd. But a subtle change came over the hall. The audience reacted less like a crowd listening to a political speech than a big family affectionately assembled to hear a patriarch warn them, as old men will, about the pitfalls of a world they thought they knew better than...
...many men who are. In six years his 35? Pocket Book on baby care has sold more than 4,000,000 copies, which puts it in a class with the dictionary and the Bible. Millions of mothers regard him as an oracle, parents turn out 5,000 strong to hear him lecture, and other pediatricians joke that their main job is to interpret him. One mother stands a little in awe of her child because he was examined by the doctor in school. "I look at Henry," she told a friend, "and I think, he has seen Dr. Spock...
...Dawes, attended the 1924 Republican Convention, but both listened to it on the radio. TIME reported in its issue of June 23, 1924 that a new loudspeaker had been installed on the White House radio set, said: "The President left the executive offices to go to his study to hear the nominating speech of Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton. At luncheon, he and Mrs. Coolidge heard the news of the nomination. He said nothing, but afterwards he went for a walk...
...trip across the country from Denver and his arrival in the convention city had been something of a triumph. At station after station, thousands of people gathered to catch a glimpse of him, hear him denounce Taft's steamroller methods. For a while, after his arrival, Eisenhower forgot politics and attended the annual reunion of the veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division. Amid flickering candles and muffled drums for the dead, Eisenhower wept. He recalled how he had visited the 82nd on the eve of its drop into Normandy, how the men had smiled at him and told...
...difference today. I know the New Deal and the Fair Deal have done more for the South than any other national administration in ... history." He talked of new factories, rehabilitated farms, the blessing of rural electricity, of new homes and healthy children. "Remember . . . this year when you see & hear the storm of political propaganda that will [be used] to try to turn back the clock." He spoke four times during the day and flew back to Washington...