Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Regrets . . ." This tit-for-tat performance was Russia's clumsy answer to the continuing chorus of free-world outrage over the Hungarian executions-a chorus that included some voices the Soviets evidently had not expected to hear. In Geneva last week the International Labor Organization expelled Communist Hungary's delegates. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local Communist branch demanded that the national party publicly condemn the executions, and even Prime Minister Nehru felt obliged to chime in with a "most distressing...
...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...
...President Eisenhower for his failure to stick to his own oft-proclaimed deep sense of public ethics. The editors, pundits and politicians knew much to admire about Sherman Adams-his efficiency, his devotion to the President, his importance to the working of the Government. But they could see and hear clearly that, to accommodate Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, the Eisenhower Administration had compromised a basic standard...
...chief observer, New Zealand's Lieut. Colonel Maurice Brown, promised to have the 100 spotters that Hammarskjold wanted (from nine countries) at work by week's end. From four outposts scattered throughout Lebanon, Brown sent them out in pairs of white U.N. jeeps to "see and hear." Later he hopes to add four light planes and two helicopters (offered by the U.S.) for his spotters. When Lebanese officials complained that such small, unarmed patrols could not stop infiltrators, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza Lasso, one of the U.N.'s three supervisory commissioners, explained...
Copy for Tolstoy. Ségur was seldom far from the Emperor's side during the five fearful months that it took to unravel Napoleon's grand design. He was close enough to hear Napoleon exclaim as he came within sight of the Muscovite capital of logs and gilded domes: "So here at last is that famous city! It was high time!" The remark was used by Tolstoy in War and Peace; probably one of the original French editions of Ségur's journal (first in 1824) was before Tolstoy as he wrote his masterpiece...