Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plaza Murillo, where M.N.R. Dictator Gualberto Villarroel was strung up on a lamppost six years ago, Paz cried: "I was not lucky enough to be with you in your heroic hour, but now my life is yours!" Then the onetime economics professor gave the word his fanatics came to hear: "We shall. . . study nationalization of the mines." The crowd roared...
IRVING BERLIN is the world's foremost writer of popular songs and one of America's leading insomniacs. Fame, riches, marital happiness and honors from grateful governments have come to this slight, dark man of 63, but the one thing he lacks is sleep-to hear him tell it, anyway...
Admit the Worst. In five months Pastor Robinson spoke to at least 400,000 students (he averaged four speeches a day). Indians followed him on trains, begging him to stay longer. Japanese Buddhist priests brought their friends to hear him. In Berlin, during the 1951 Youth Rally, he argued into the small hours with young Communists. Wherever he went in Asia he ran into Jim Crow in reverse-his color got him places where white Americans are scarcely tolerated...
Erie Mining is owned by Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., and the U.S. will soon hear a lot more about taconite, an iron-bearing rock which spreads over much of Minnesota's Mesabi and adjoining ranges. Though Mesabi's rich ore is rapidly being exhausted, there is a vast supply of the inferior (about 30% iron) taconite ore. Big steel producers are now committed to spend $1 billion within the next six years building plants to turn taconite into usable iron...
...guns, horses and dust. But the film, which cost a piddling $681,000, is topping such gaudy epics as The Greatest Show on Earth ($3,000,000) and Quo Vadis ($6,500,000). Goldstein, 48, who is Hollywood's top moneymaking producer, was not at all surprised to hear the news. Said he: "I don't write, I don't direct, I don't shoot for awards. But hell...