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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drink of water. "I have no real hours," she says. "If I'm here, fine. If not, tough luck." Calling ahead doesn't always work either. "I detest telephone-answering machines. I put the phone by the door and leave the door open and hope I hear it, but you never know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...warning to radio stations about the use of offensive language and material on the air is an insult to the public (NATION, April 27). Americans should be allowed to decide on their own what is indecent. When they are , offended by what they hear, listeners can change the station or turn off the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sanitizing Radio | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...your writer serious about U2's social statements? Can he really hear the "moral imperatives" above the turbid screaming and screeching? Great musicians have made political statements with their music, which was not stylized through the gimmickry of electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Songs Of Spirit | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...military officers and CIA men together, Secord asserted, North called on him in November 1985 to rescue a shipment by Israel of U.S.-made arms to Iran that had run into snags in Portugal. That led to some quasi-diplomatic assignments, meeting with Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar to hear his proposals for the exchange of U.S. weapons for American hostages (or "boxes," as Ghorbanifar termed them in a particularly repulsive code word) held in Lebanon. In early 1986 Secord was designated, in his words, as "the commercial cutout" to arrange the secret delivery of more weapons from U.S. stockpiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Ran the Show | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...STORY you are about to hear is true. The names haven't even been changed, because I don't know the names of any of the people involved. Well, except for my own, which you already know, and Steve's, whose phone number is 8-2666. He loves to receive phone calls at any hour of the night from lonely people who walk the streets late at night waiting for the Wursthaus to open. I, however, do not relish such calls...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Money for Nothing | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

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