Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Omar Bradley should be forced to tell who said what, for or against MacArthur, at the White House conference on April 6, Harry Truman cheerily remarked it didn't matter; he had already made up his mind before he talked to his advisers. He just wanted to hear what they had to say. In fact, he told his press conference, he had made up his mind that he needed a new general in the Far East at the time last month when MacArthur issued his ceasefire offer to the Chinese Communists...
...seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
...uses to which 'my children,' radio and television, have been put . . . [But] what an aid to democracy talking pictures, radio and television can be. Instead of a static photograph or a brief glimpse of a man going by in a car, the American citizen can see and hear his leaders in action and get to know and judge them for himself. I am a proud parent today...
...Iddon never forgets that the tune Britons like to hear has a Rule, Brittanial theme. For example, after many a laudatory word about U.S. generosity in the Marshall Plan, he once summed up his sentiments in a way to bring cheers from home: "I await the day when we shall be sending bundles for America and floating loans for Washington. That day I shall crow until I am hoarse...
...York's good old days, all the wise birds knew that big, granite-jawed Jim Moran was more than just Mayor William O'Dwyer's deputy fire commissioner. When he listened, politicians understood that O'Dwyer would hear, and when he spoke, they understood that O'Dwyer was speaking. Moran had grown up in one of Brooklyn's toughest districts; the oldest boy in a family of 14 kids, he had worked since he was eleven. Jim Moran had followed O'Dwyer up to the big time: they got together when...