Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admiration of her is of the fullest, and I am happy for her success. If I hear her sing well, I am the first to cheer her. But I live in another world. She is a vocalist of a certain repertoire. I consider myself a soprano-one who does what they used to do once upon a time. My repertoire, by God's will and nature's blessing, is complete. I have contributed to the history of music. I have taken music that has long been dead and buried and have brought it back to life again...
...from an antechamber off the Pope's bedroom, stepped up its reports. In a calm voice, the Rev. Francesco Pellegrino, S.J., projected such a sense of immediacy ("I have just come from the bedside of the Holy Father") that one listener was moved to observe:"You could almost hear the Pope breathe." After the Pope's death,† the mills ground out rumor (e.g., that the Pope's secret diaries had been stolen) and worked up enough "dope" stories discussing the "papabili" of the church's 53 cardinals to bring a public remonstrance from the Vatican...
...League. Such a move would be the next step in coaching, and I thought I might like to give it a try," he explains. So when a Harvard representative contacted him about the possibility of moving to Cambridge, he decided to come and meet some University officials and hear just what might be expected of a Harvard football coach. He interpreted the administrative jargon about "good teacher" to mean that he was supposed to give men wanting to play football the fundamentals to do so, a lot of practice, and try to see if his team could turn...
...idea. He confidently printed 60,000 copies of the first issue, saw 20,000 snapped off the stands in four days, ordered another 40,000. Next month he plans to print 150,000 (with scenes and recordings from the life of Pope Pius XII), and he thinks he can hear a circulation...
Thanks for your letter. I was glad to hear you arrived home safely. I missed you the first few days; it was strange not to find you when I came home in the evening...