Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lodging, but he drifted from one shelter to another before getting arrested on a street corner for disorderly conduct. Released, he was last reported heading for Houston to "pick up his van." Cleveland officials, who cannot find any legal authority to incarcerate him indefinitely, were noticeably relieved to hear that he had left town...
...figure that worshipping Springsteen is pretty much the same as worshipping the standard gods. You don't have to see them to believe in them, nor do you have to hear everything they said to believe the message...
...change Harvard's system, and Jewett said he has some reservations about whether such a change would be useful at his alma mater. His concerns lie in students' obligation to turn in their peers for cheating--"self-policing" as Jewett terms it. He said he will be interested to hear from students on this issue, "since it will only work if students honor it," and stressed that an honor code is unlikely to be implemented unless students give it "overwhelming support...
...sleuth game, Murder, She Wrote. Traditionally, notes Tinker, "people go to CBS for 60 Minutes, and many of them just sit there all night long, through some rather indifferent programming. With Amazing Stories we're asking them to get up and change that dial. And if we do hear the thunder of dials across the land, the whole face of Sunday night will change, because maybe they won't come back to CBS." NBC is spending about $800,000 per half hour--twice the budget of an ordinary show--and has committed to 44 episodes, or two years...
...came quickly. Just an hour and a half after the first boat got away, the stern of the Titanic towered up out of the water. The passengers in the lifeboats could hear the screams of those they had left behind. And the crashing sound of everything breaking loose, the five grand pianos, the ice- making machine, dozens of potted palms. At 2:20, with a few of her red and green running lights still aglow, the Titanic suddenly slipped beneath the waves. Nobody knows exactly how many lives she took with her. The best estimate...