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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teenager's grisly murder admitted to basing his story on a television program he had seen. He said that he lied about the murder to please Morris' investigators. Said an angry Morris: "It's easy to believe a child when they retract because that's what adults want to hear. It's not easy to believe when they're telling you the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disturbing End of a Nightmare | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Once on the ground, Levin ran from the villa, which was high on a mountain in Lebanon. As he scrambled downhill in the dark, wearing only pajamas, a sweater and socks, he could hear what "must have been a hundred dogs barking all the way down the mountain. My heart was in my mouth." Levin hiked for two hours before reaching a main highway. There he heard "a dog and human voices. I thought my kidnapers were at my heels, so I hid under a truck. But when I saw it was Syrian soldiers, I gave myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...department's aim was to encourage Syria to help find and free four other Americans who are believed to be held by the same Shi'ite group, possibly in the very building where Levin was detained. Levin reported that other prisoners were in the building, but he could not hear their voices well enough to know whether they were the four Americans: William Buckley, 56, a U.S. diplomat who has been missing since March 16; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister who disappeared May 8; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Friends would ask, "Did you hear the Red Sox are moving to Manila? They're going to be called the Manila Folders," and you'd laugh, but they're missing the point, as are all who have never felt their hearts lift as they catch that first glimpse of green...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Color Green | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...union, which organizers said, represents the majority of the nursing home's employees, filed charges of unfair labor practice with the NI RB in December, and after an investigation. Hiatt said that the board found probable cause and issued a complaint. An administrative law judge will hear the case on April...

Author: By Michael E. Joachim, | Title: Union Accuses Nursing Home Owner of Violations | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

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