Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to hear and read about his asinine decisions and imbecilic boners week after week, year after year, without having to face Harry Truman on the cover of a wonderful magazine like TIME...
Once he had restated his own side of the great debate for all to hear, Harry Truman threw himself open to questions and settled delightedly back to needle his enemies. "General Whitney said General MacArthur hasn't the faintest idea of why he was relieved," a reporter began. Harry Truman's eyebrows popped up in feigned surprise. Well, he said amiably, everybody else knows why. The reporters laughed. Had he changed his mind about giving MacArthur a clear field to air his views? Oh no, said the President blithely, the general...
...Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park, a young lady (agreeably played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) also acquires the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier. She already has two living beaux, but the ghost falls in love with her, too; since only she can see and hear him, she is first thought to be drunk and then demented...
...months ago, Elliston began to hear disturbing things: Acheson was saying privately that maybe the U.S. should toughen its policy toward the Chinese Communists, and responsible Democrats on Capitol Hill were saying that nothing could be done with Administration foreign policy while Acheson stayed in office. Last week, when Elliston heard that Acheson had not raised his voice against sending a 600-man military mission to Chiang on Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he decided the time had come. In a churning editorial the Post called for Dean Acheson's resignation...
...Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music for his violin (his Melody is still available on records), was heard from in recent years only on his birthdays, when he gave brusque statements to the press. One of his last: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...