Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying softly: "Oh, pshaw, Jim, we've decided to call the tax off this year...
...heeded the call. In 1894, he tacked on to a Republican tariff bill an amendment levying a 2% tax on incomes over $4,000. The silver-tongued old king of corn stood in the House, wrapped like an animated tamale in an American flag, and forced his colleagues to hear and act. He cried shame on those who accused proponents of the amendment of "extending their hands to anarchy and Communism." He attacked Ward McAllister, a leader of New York's "400" who had threatened to leave the country rather than pay the tax. "If some...
...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two New York Daily Mirror reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...
About 250 freshmen, scholarship applicants, will hear an informal discussion of the procedures governing award of scholarships at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Union's upstairs common room...
Moreover, since the networks cannot televise or broadcast the full proceedings of any committee, committee members have had to chose what portions of their inquiries the public could see and hear. This has usually meant full play for dramatic accusations and oblivion for the more lackluster denials...