Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of South Dakota's rolling plains, Dantesque bad lands and towering Black Hills. He made 24 speeches to 50,000 attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes and expensive foreign aid; he was for farm-price supports, flood control and Douglas MacArthur. He made a big vow: "I promise you that if I am nominated and elected . . . I will reduce taxes by at least 15% within...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church last week, delegates to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met to hear reports on the state of the church, plot its course for another year, and elect a new Moderator to guide it. It was the 150th anniversary year of Presbyterian national missions, and as Moderator, the delegates, without a dissenting vote, chose the churchman who knows most about the church's mission work: the Rev. Hermann N. Morse, 64, of New York...
Bill McCurdy, who has been appointed to succeed Jaakko next year, was shocked to hear of Mikkola's death. "I came to know him quite well in two years. Words can't express how wonderful a man he was. To see a man as hardy and vigorous as he go so suddenly is a terrible experience...
...because twice in my life I came, not alone, for I had my wife and children by the hand, to a dark tower, and, in a storm of the spirit, listened to that question that was both within and without me: Who, if I cried out, would hear me from among the orders of the angels...
...York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...