Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent European jaunt, said Bernard Baruch, he had spent two days visiting Old Friend Winston Churchill, who "talks about nothing but horses. He can't hear any better than I can, but he won't wear an ear machine." Another conversation was reported by James Eldridge of the American Association for the United Nations, just back in Chicago from London. Curious to know what political party Churchill would have chosen had he been an American, Eldridge dropped a leading remark: "I believe you're Tory enough that you'd be a Midwest Republican." "Well," answered Churchill...
...mouth turned down into his chin. Before him was the Defense Production Act handed up by Congress. There were no jolly Congressmen beaming over his shoulder waiting eagerly for a pen. As he snatched up a black and gold fountain pen, he mumbled loud enough for some reporters to hear: "The worst I ever had to sign." He scratched his signature, then brusquely cut off the photographers (toward ward whom he usually is friendly), saying that he had two telephone calls and a party waiting for him. The party was for old friend George J. Schoeneman, retiring-chief...
Listeners who tuned in late on the midnight Moscow radio news got a shock-the Russian broadcaster was saying: ". . . Truth can only be arrived at if there is freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear...
...Hear Yee, Hear Yee. In San Francisco, Telephone Operator Marie Yee, represented by Attorney Samuel E. Yee (no kin), won a divorce from John Yee on testimony of her sister Rosemary Yee and got court permission to resume her maiden name: Marie...
...makings of madness. So fitted, his creatures have two "learning circuits" instead of one; they can be trained to react in two different ways to the same stimulus. A whistle, for instance, can come to mean both food (go forward) and an obstacle (draw back). So, when they hear a whistle, the turtles cower in helpless indecision, like certain human neurotics whose emotional circuits are tangled...