Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What did you hear about Korea? A. We learned that the American soldiers bomb and fight there against the Soviets and the Koreans. The Koreans worked on their rice fields peacefully, but now they are very poor...
...week, playing in the airy courtyard of Perpignan's 13th Century Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Casals was really out in the open. He made a 30-mile move from Prades to more accessible Perpignan; fellow musicians and some 2,000 music lovers made global pilgrimages to hear...
Last week, at 78, Albert Barnes died when the convertible he was driving collided with a ten-ton trailer truck. It looked as though death might finally have opened the doors of his collection. He had provided that, when he was no longer around to hear their comments, the general public should be allowed to look at his paintings-at intervals. The intervals will be up to the trustees of the Barnes Foundation...
...Baltimore, the fans broke a plateglass window trying to get to Mario. In Pittsburgh, where 2,000 paid just to hear him rehearse, two girls had to be taken to the hospital. Says Lanza: "They go for your handkerchief. They go for your buttons. They rip at your lapels. They try to kiss you. Oh, how they try to kiss you! I love every minute of it." While the police grappled with mobs that tore detectives' badges off in their frenzy to reach their idol, Lanza collected an average of $4,530 from box offices in each...
...current Scientific American, Dr. Walter describes his new, more sophisticated pets. One type is designed, as before, so that when it sees a light, it scurries toward it in search of electric food. In addition, it can also hear a whistle, but at first it does not react to the sound. The whistle, however, is "remembered" in the form of long-lasting oscillations in the new eight-tube brain. When the creature hears a whistle just before it sees a light, the two stimuli are blended and remembered together. After this has happened enough times, these combined memory oscillations acquire...