Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glamour, excitement and anger of the first weeks of General MacArthur's return had subsided; the public, or at least a large part of it, admitted that things were more complicated than they had seemed. It sat back to hear the discussion out. Meanwhile, the impact of Douglas MacArthur had already made firm some decisions which had been tentative, made emphatic some intentions which had been halfhearted, made urgent some programs which had been dawdling...
MARSHALL : "I don't think that had any connection with it whatsoever." Republicans Smith and Knowland were not satisfied. They wanted to hear all about Marshall's presidential mission to China in 1945-46. Had his orders been to help bring about a coalition between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalist government? asked Knowland. Said Marshall: "I was supposed primarily to bring an end to the fighting...
...hear Donald S. Dawson tell it, his record was as clean as the fur of a royal pastel mink. But Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright thought he detected some spots on the pelt...
...good sense, good taste, and good James Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world all elegance will vanish and good manners will be a thing of the past . . . The masses? . . . I should compel them to vote, of course, because of the salutary...
Most New Yorkers don't know it, but there are chickadees in Manhattan. J. (for Justin) Brooks Atkinson, 56, a transplanted New Englander, can hear one above the roar of the traffic at two blocks, he says, and run it down...