Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christiansborg Palace, strange new sounds filled the air of Western Europe, and echoed in the big segment of the U.S. press that was cool or hostile to Dulles in his summit-conference position. Secretary Dulles, declared one European statesman, "is a much-maligned man. If only everyone could hear him in a closed session." "You know," echoed a member of one of the smaller NATO delegations, "Mr. Dulles did not once give us a lecture, did not once tell us about morality, did not once urge us to leave our fates in the hands of the Almighty. It seems possible...
...have chosen to devote the day to a pique-nique in the woods, eating off little tables set out under the beech trees and gathering bunches of bluebells are home again, relaxing before their TV sets. There, against the frame of Coty's doorway, they can see and hear how each of the three potential Radical Premiers called by the President greets this honor...
...commercial, a floor manager flings open a door out of camera range and holds up a sign saying "Suspend." At this signal, the appropriate lawyer usually launches into a long-winded objection, which Court Reporter Jim McKay breaks in on, explaining that here is a chance to hear from the sponsor...
...Boston's Mayor John Hynes did not want to hear arguments or evidence. He ordered that no licenses be issued for any more rock 'n' roll shows, and a Boston grand jury returned an indictment against Freed-under an old "anti-anarchy" law-for inciting "the unlawful destruction of property." Professing alarm, and perhaps jumpy over growing criticism of juvenile delinquency, officials in New Haven and Newark seized on the Boston incident as an excuse to ban scheduled Freed appearances...
...takes a no-nonsense view of his own playing, grows rapturous when he thinks he is in form ("Faultless!"), but can be equally tough on himself when he thinks he is not ("Did you ever hear such lousy piano playing in your whole life?"). He can be equally hard on other players; e.g., he scorns Sergei Prokofiev's old recording of his own Third Concerto: "Sorry, but it's just not Russian...