Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly became Southern California's largest and most dangerous charcoal grill. When the cargo vessel Fort Providence sailed into port near Los Angeles, area residents were alarmed to hear that the ship was carrying 54,000 tons of coal close to igniting. Under way from Baton Rouge, La., to Taiwan, the coal began heating up, and its temperature reached 169 degrees...
Endings. Writers want them to be logical. Directors want them to be spectacular. Producers want them to be reshot. And the public does not want to hear about them -- not until it has been jolted by the hoped-for surprise it paid good money to enjoy...
...grateful for the opportunity to hear North explain his side of the story. How foolish he makes a lot of people look for judging him before listening...
...understand why people criticize the Congressmen who made impassioned statements during the Iran-contra hearings. Would Edmund Burke or James Madison have sat meekly by in similar circumstances? Only in the course of investigations into a Watergate or an Iranscam do Americans have the opportunity to hear their lawmakers expound their political philosophies...
...roof of a great encyclopedic museum. Hence it is a pity that Terra did not give his collection to the Art Institute of Chicago. Much, no doubt, would have gone into storage, because much is not of museum quality. But that is not what the new Maecenases wish to hear. There is vanity museumship, just as there is vanity publishing. Can it be that America now has too many museums -- and that the Terra Museum is a sign that the saturation point is here at last...