Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thompson said, "The best thing about racing in it is that in the spring races, you hear the crowd for about one minute, while here there's 20 minutes of solid cheering...
Grandma never forgot to bring her notorious cowbell, which she rang whenever Columbia did anything good. Other fans had only to hear the bell to know that she was at the game...
...camera as a "combination of the psychiatrist's couch, a machine gun and a warm kiss." That language has a familiar ring to it. The shock compactions of imagery, the off-kilter linkage of sex, death and Freud -- it all smacks of surrealism. But who would expect to hear it from a great photojournalist? Cartier-Bresson's fame is based on four decades of incomparable camera reporting. Mention his name and what comes to mind is his great surveys of life in China, the Soviet Union and his native France, not the enigmatic jokes of Max Ernst or the dreams...
Shorthanded benches have occurred before.After the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas, a year elapsed before the Senate confirmed Richard Nixon's third nominee, Harry Blackmun. The Justices postponed some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four...
...when the court overturned an Alabama law that provided for a moment of silent "meditation or voluntary prayer" in the public schools, Powell and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in separate concurrences that a simple moment-of-silence law might be constitutional. This week the court will hear arguments concerning a New Jersey law that merely permits a moment of silent "contemplation and introspection." Two lower courts have already found the law unconstitutional, after concluding that despite its neutral language, the statute has a religious purpose...