Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Escort. Atlanta's largest nonsegregated audience since Reconstruction days jammed the municipal auditorium to hear a speech by Nobel Prizewinner Bunche, which closed the six-day convention. He lashed the Senate for failing to pass Civil Rights legislation, said bluntly: "I can never be fully relaxed in Atlanta, fine city that it is ... since I abhorracial prejudice and its evil end products, discrimination and segregation. I can find more than enough of that far to the north . . . Among those heroic men fighting for the freedom of all of us in Korea are many American Negroes...
When the Apostle Paul made his famous speech on Athens' Mars' Hill, declaring to the pagan Athenians the reality of that unknown God whom they ignorantly worshiped, some mocked, and others said, "We will hear thee again of this matter." But most of them doubtless went away and forgot all about...
Last week out-of-town ragtime fans got a chance to hear a solid sample of Sutton's style...
Gradually, more came. As the years passed, Los Angeles began to hear quite a bit about Mrs. Buckley's "nononsense" approach to education ("The school expects the best of the child," she flatly declared). In 1936, she opened a second school-a new sort of nursery school that emphasized work as well as play; and by 1946, she had a third school in the San Fernando Valley for grades one to eight (tuition: $400 a year up to first grade; $600 thereafter...
...Confidence Game. Guidance sessions (which sometimes bring more than 400 newsmen to the Press Club to hear a big wheel) often permit correspondents to seem wiser in print with "dope" stories than they really are. And the confidence game has also brought a great evil in its train: the camaraderie between officials and newsmen encourages Government officials to keep facts off the record which should be published, enables them to dodge responsibility for phony stories, permits unscrupulous bureaucrats and politicos to backstab opponents with impunity. Furthermore, even competent correspondents who are constantly being "guided" by off-the-record conferences occasionally...