Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cried Faubus: "Now that a federal court has ruled that no further litigation is possible before the forcible integration of Negroes and whites in Central High School tomorrow, the evidence of discord, anger and resentment has come to me from so many sources as to become a deluge!" To hear Faubus tell it, Little Rock was indeed on the brink of riot: outraged white mothers were prepared to march on the school at 6 a.m.; caravans of indignant white citizens even then were converging on Little Rock from all over Arkansas. And Little Rock stores', declared the governor, were...
...Warning. Dulles and Henderson began to make their point for all the world to hear. State issued a statement that Henderson had found, in his talks with the leaders of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, a unanimous "deep concern lest Syria should become a base for further threatening the independence and integrity of the region." State spread carefully publicized word that it was speeding up shipments of U.S. arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya...
Behind the mahogany doors, one morning last week, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s five-member Ethical Practices Committee, chaired by greying Machinists' President Al Hayes, waited impatiently to hear what the hour-late Teamster chieftains had to say about charges that their union is dominated by "corrupt influences." Dave and Jimmy said plenty-but told very little. Reading off a wordy prepared statement, Beck said blandly that, after all, the "allegations" against him and Jimmy and other Teamster officials were not "of such magnitude as to support a belief that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as an entity...
...hear Hagen's progress report, delegates strained for their notebooks when he started to tick off key facts. One engrossed note taker: Russia's Vladimir Kotelnikov, who headed a 16-man delegation. Kotelnikov shrugged off questions about Russia's progress in moon making: "They will launch one when they are ready...
...ramble with the mocking hawker's chant of Gaspard's papa: "Step up here sir; don't be afraid of life. Don't take one tie; don't take ten, take twenty, and have one to your taste every morning of your life! And hear this, hear this, the most necessary and inevitable purchase of all your days, for the picayune supplementary cost of sixty-five francs, this sparkling, luminous, phosphorescent necktie, the invention of the century! See the sun at midnight; see the stars at noon...