Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important of all, he has immense discretion "in deciding which aspiring speaker to recognize." The general practice in debate is to hear first from the government's front bench, then from a member on the opposition side, after which Mr. Speaker generally recognizes only those of all factions who he thinks will illumine the debate. This is usually done with scrupulous impartiality, but younger members are more often seen than heard, and desperately pen notes to Mr. Speaker begging to be recognized. A dexterous Speaker so arranges it that older bores catch his eye only late at night...
Author Oursler, 58, a Reader's Digest editor and onetime newspaperman, knows from experience what people want to hear about, and how they want to hear it. His rewrite of the New Testament, The Greatest Story Ever Told, has sold nearly 1,500,000 copies and is still going strong...
...field arm in arm. Princeton fans allowed their goal posts to be torn down without offering resistance. Yet despite this acceptance of their relationship, the Tigers still retain a certain unique character even today. Demonstrations of this character took place in 1949 when Princetonians overflowed their Whig Hall to hear their debating team argue that Women Should Choose Death Before Dishonor. Again, just last year, Princetonians revived their colonial history by bombarding West Point with leaflets inviting the cadets to an Indian Massacre. Princetonians have even devised a method for numbering their graduates in those unknown regions west...
...Jannotta hear McClain that the Nassaus Hickok you in danger...
...when he was finishing up high school, was also U. of C. bound, but there Willard stepped in and told his brother to look around some more. Bod did and when he chanced to hear former football coach Art Valpey speak, he began to think in terms of New England...