Word: hear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, we're not talking to each other because every door that we opened was shut by the U.S. We have set forth procedures of how the Shah should be returned to Iran. And when we make our proposals, the next thing we hear is a decision, "We aren't going to buy your oil." The next thing, "We are going to freeze Iranian assets...
RUSSELL LONG usually barges into Senate hearings as if he were entering a red-neek Southern bar. Last year, he swung open the doors to a House-Senate conference drawling, "I hope it won't give anyone a brain hemmorage to hear a new idea." Well Long has just come up with a new one that's bound to give Americans more than a nose bleed. He has gotten together with Al Ullman--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--to propose a value added tax (VAT) which could drastically change the American tax system...
When what to my wondering Ears should I hear But answers--some funny--And all of them dear...
After Dionysus pronounces his name as both deye-yon-i-sis and deye-yo-neye-sis in the first two minutes, you begin to sense the shape of things to come. Later, you will hear Lysistrata pronounced as both li-si-stra-ta and leye-si-stra-ta, but by then the mispronounciation will seem only a minor quibble. Demos' portrayal of Dionysus is pompous, even smug, as it should be, but his pretentious remarks about respecting the sanctity of Aristophanes' play, whether performed in Athens or the Winthrop JCR, rings hollow. Director Estrada didn't, why should...
...Americans don't hear about independence until someone gets shot or a bomb goes off," Berrios said...