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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Music" Suite while the boat sailed around the Public lagoon under floodlights, with thousands of people lining the banks all around. It was an amusing gimmick, but it badly misfired. Whenever the boat got 75 or so yards away, the strings and woodwinds became totally inaudible and one could hear only the two horns and, in the finale, the two trumpets. The basic idea was not bad; the choice of music...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Boston Arts Festival Called General Success | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Couple of months ago," said a clerk in Warren, "I would have said that Ward and Finkbeiner were wasting their time trying to run against Faubus. But now I don't know." With issues clearly laid out and personalities amply identified, Arkansas voters last week got set to hear more-and the more they heard the more it appeared that front-running Orval Faubus was going to have to run hard and fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arkansas Travelers | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...know what Hollywood stands for, but if it stands for current values I am dead against it. American values are all wrong -the pursuit of security and comfort, with everyone plugging away to be as ordinary as possible. It's like Rome. I can hear the clanking of the barbarians at the gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...camps, fought with the partisans, been invalided at war's end to hospitals in northern Italy. When he returned to Falciano and found Alba gone, her family told him she had married and moved to Belgium. But Rinaldo continued the search and found her at last, only to hear her tell him through the convent grating: "I love you no more. I have said goodbye to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Goodbye to the-World | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Germans killed the family he had left in the textile city of Lodz, and Rubinstein avoided Poland as well as Germany during his postwar European tours. When he finally decided he was ready to return to Poland, his concerts became immediate sellouts; 1,200 people turned up merely to hear him rehearse. Before he played a note at his final concert, the audience stood as he walked on the stage (the only other musician in modern memory similarly honored in Warsaw: Pianist Ignace Paderewski, who later became Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Oh, Poles! | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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