Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playbacks while Mohr kept up a running commentary: "That's too heavy there, Anna; in the next line you can be as tragic as you wish. You're weighing it down a little, maestro. Diction, diction. It's ECCO, Anna, not echo. We must hear every word...
Thus in 1945 did a Senate Military Affairs subcommittee hear Major General John H. Hilldring, the War Department's chief of U.S. military government and decartelization in Germany, pledge to break up the $2.8 billion Farben chemical trust. Farben had held an interest-often a controlling interest-in 379 German companies and 400 others. The Allies enthusiastically enforced this policy of dismemberment. They imprisoned 13 of Farben's top 23 executives as war criminals, stripped Farben of $1 billion worth of its assets and of its 30,000 patents. The Russians and Poles swallowed the three-fifths...
...curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine-and wants to see and hear no more commotion about...
Husband Goudeket shows how this unique "pagan love" operated in Colette's daily life. "There is only one creature! D'you hear, Maurice, there is only one creature!" she exclaimed to him once with "the intensity of a pythoness"-and from dawn to dusk she pursued the manifold forms of this one creature. First thing every morning, she must know just where the wind lay and the precise degree of humidity; around her bed were "a barometer, an outdoor thermometer . . . compasses . . . watches, chronometers, binoculars and magnifying glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like...
...smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly"; in Balzac she found a lust for life that matched her own, in Proust a brilliant reflection of her love for the memories and mysteries of childhood...