Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolled around or bounced on the floor without waking up. It will even sleep through meal periods and die of malnutrition. About the only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...
Sound Effects. So the Pfizer people selected a resonant sow and recorded both her mealtime grunt and the joyous squeals of her litter. That does the trick, says Pfizer. When the deep-sleeping pigs hear the sound effects, they wake up in a flash and connect with rows of rubber nipples charged with Terralac...
...University of Minnesota was in an uproar over a faculty ban on broadcasting the address of a speaker invited by the Student Republican Club. The speaker: Wisconsin's Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. Reason for the ban, according to Dean Edmund G. Williamson: "I hear that McCarthy won't come unless there is a broadcast. That indicates that he isn't coming to speak to students, but to counties in western Wisconsin or somewhere...
...story the court will have to consider, if it agrees to hear the case, begins in 1947, when Brazilian-born Jandyra Southern, a Roman Catholic, and her husband, Thomas Southern of Kansas City, a Protestant, were divorced. Jandyra Southern moved to New York, and boarded her two children, Diane and Linda, in a Jewish foster home. Later they were put in the care of the Free Synagogue Child Adoption Committee in Manhattan. For reasons Mrs. Southern has never explained, she declared that she and her children were Jews...
...were the son of God, have permitted himself to be crucified by Roman soldiers? But later, though he still thought the claims of the disciples absurd, Barabbas found himself wandering through the alleyways of the lower city, where the new faith flourished among the poor. Barabbas liked to hear them talk about their queer doctrines-love one another, they said. He could not fathom it, but he wanted to hear...