Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear the latest news about the law school..." I launch into tales of appointments...
...ironic to hear that Bush has been an ineffectual President on the domestic level. Recent economic indicators would astound even the most skeptical. Since Bush has entered office, the unemployment has dropped to 5.1 percent; the trade deficit has fallen, exports exceeding imports by $1.8 billion during the last quarter; the stock market recently hit a post-crash high...
...that once the genie of freedom is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. This is rank sentimentalism. The idea that somehow, if people ) have tasted freedom, the taste cannot be wrung out of them is a fallacy so large it is embarrassing just to hear it. Think only of this century. Russia tasted freedom in February 1917 and by October had lost it for 70 years. Weimar Germany tasted democracy for 14 years; it took Hitler and his storm troopers a few months to eradicate it. (Had Hitler not started World War II, the taste...
...impossible to succeed enough to satisfy this woman," writes Baker, who sounds as if he does not believe how far he has come. To hear Baker tell of his rise from newspaper delivery boy to the Baltimore Sun's man about London and Washington, one would think he still regards himself as an ink- stained wretch...
...Assembled in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses were the delegates to the Soviet Union's brand-new Congress of People's Deputies, a forum where doctrine could be questioned, where the unexpected could happen, and where the unmentionable could be spoken for all the nation to hear...