Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous Republican farm towns of Goodells and Bad Axe, farmers turned out in their Sunday best to hear the report explained, and as soon as it was over, began biting the hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...
...Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...
...Urals. "Voici l'immense Union Soviétique. A great, a very great country," says the dove. "Yes, a big country full of song," agrees the little girl. "Here they work and sing," says the dove. "And now, look here, the Himalaya, and down there is China." "I hear the singing in China, too," says the little girl. "Another big country," explains the dove...
...fanatic finds more championship material. Bruce Munro still has a strong nucleus of players from the lacrosse squad that last year battled its way to the somewhat nebulous eastern championship. And anyone who tells a Harvard fan that the Crimson crew is not the best in the nation will hear the following argument...
Before new students come to Harvard they hear a great deal about the cultural riches of Boston; unfortunately most men fall to take advantage of the situation. Scollay Square is probably the one part of Boston that is regularly visited by a really large number of Harvard...