Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sought the Young. Most of those who came to hear Taft's speeches were comfortable, middle-aged people. He sought out the younger and the not so comfortable, wherever he could find them. In Spokane, where he talked to 3,000 at a Chamber of Commerce banquet, he also answered students' questions at the Jesuits' Gonzaga University. From a dim back corner of the gymnasium, a student shouted: "Senator Taft, do you favor sending an ambassador to the Vatican?" Taft had a prompt reply. "I don't believe a formal ambassador is necessary," he said...
...Seattle, a crowd of 5,000 jammed the Civic Auditorium to hear Candidate Taft at a Lincoln Day banquet. He was so absorbed in his attack on the Truman foreign policy that he almost forgot to include a mention of Lincoln in his speech, but worked in a few lines just before he started speaking...
...teetotaling Muley Doughton-"what little brains I got, I have to keep sober so I can do my work"-Washington was losing a sturdy landmark. At 88, he is getting deaf (though some say he can hear just fine when he wants to). In the last year or so, he has taken to sleeping in, gets to his office around 8 a.m., three hours later than in the old days. But his 6 ft. 2 in. frame is still as straight as an Indian's and almost as tough as it was in his boyhood on the farm, when...
Money. The big question is who pays, and how much. Lisbon will hear a report from NATO's Three Wise Men-W. Averell Harriman of the U.S., Jean Monnet of France, Sir Edwin Plowden of Britain-who have been working secretly and late on the figures. Though most NATO partners fear they can no longer carry the defense load without serious inflationary crises at home, the Wise Men have urged Belgium and Canada to ante up more. They asked West Germany to contribute 13 billion marks; Germany said it could afford only 10; they compromised at 11 billion...
...walked out, bepinned with corrugated flag, I could hear the man barking "One. Two. Three." There was a long line of people waiting at his table. JOHN R. W. SMAIL...