Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tonight's confrontation is intended as an intercollegiate mixer as well as a music contest, Nachmanoff said. "It's a chance to meet kids from other schools as well as hear the bands play," he said...
...There is general enthusiasm for the program among proctors as they talk to others and hear about the positive experiences," Stubbs said, adding, "I have not heard any [proctors] say anything negative...
...such verbal and physical attacks, the most popular of which is backing down and saying "It means a lot more to them than it does to us." I don't believe such people as far as they could throw me; I know it means a lot to me to hear my mother's honor abused by a pimply teenage Satanist with hair like a chicken...
...first six of her eight stories she actually neglects the players. Flesh fades before wordplay as he, elegant in his tweed coat and paisley scarf, embraces her, a slob in worn corduroys and ratty sweater, on the way to the frowsy couch in Billy's study. Readers can scarcely hear Billy's battered loafers thud to the floor for the detonations of insights and definitions...
...displays of armed force in some cases may have frightened off more tourists than terrorists. Says Connie Nicholson, an administrator at the American College in Paris: "When you see three or four cops with rifles slung over their shoulders, you're more scared than when you actually hear about the bombs...