Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American interests which had dealt with the Reds. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy happily announced (without naming names) that two members of the China International Foundation's board had been active in Communist-front groups. Then the President, who was presumably hot-eyed also, called Newbold in to hear a few well-chosen words...
Harvard: "...so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles...
...Mexico City last week, Viviane finally got to play the world premiere of her concerto, and Mexico's music lovers packed the white marble Palace of Fine Arts to hear their No. 1 composer's first major work in five years...
...tortured by a bad stomach and that most "terrible affliction" of a musician, deafness. The deafness left its mark early. At 31 he confided in letters to a friend: "I fled from men, had to appear a misanthropist, though I am far from being one ... I scarcely hear those who are speaking softly . . . and yet I cannot bear to be yelled...
...pockets-a green glass bottle stopper and a horse pistol on one occasion; on another, "several stubs of pencil, a paperbacked murder story, some colored chalks, and a small cigar or two." Nor did anyone know what he would bring to a lecture: a Dutch audience that flocked to hear him talk on Dickens went away much enlightened on the subject of Browning...