Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painstakingly searching in detail, so sweeping in scale. Military tactics and grand strategy, global diplomacy and the course of a great world struggle were the subjects. In a marble-paneled, high-ceilinged room, where every word was weighed for its value to an enemy, 25 Senators met to hear a five-star debate on the nation's destiny...
Either course invited misgivings: the nation anxiously waited to hear the argument...
...This conflict in Korea has already lasted almost as long as General Eisenhower's decisive campaign which brought the European war to an end. And yet the only program that I have been able to hear is that we shall indecisively go on resisting aggression, whatever that may mean. And if you do, you are going to have thousands and thousands and thousands of American lives that will fall . . . and then the great question is-where does the responsibility of that blood rest...
...served as superintendent in Minneapolis and had recently been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators. Pasadena was proud to have him, and at first the school board approved everything he did. Willard Goslin had a year to settle himself into his job before he began to hear disturbing news. In the winter of 1949, a small group of citizens began attacking the schools at a series of meetings held in the American Legion Hall. Most of them thought their children were not doing well enough at school, and charged that Superintendent Goslin was not putting enough emphasis...
Like CBS's Hear It Now and NBC's Voices and Events, ABC's Time for Defense is building the tape-recording process into radio's most versatile, dramatic new device. The program has already achieved the goal set for it by Defense Secretary George Marshall: "To permit history to explain itself while it is still happening...