Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was no staff and no money. Moreover, the city of Los Angeles had passed a resolution saying that not one cent of municipal funds could be spent on the Games. The first week Ueberroth and his tiny staff were locked out of their small new office. They could hear the phones ringing inside. But the landlord, like most of the rest of the town, was sure the Olympics would lose money and not pay its bills...
...office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy. It'll go like this.' And he says, 'Just a moment,' and explains how he's not crazy, I'm crazy. And we keep on going like this. You see, when I hear about physics, I just think about physics, and I don't know who I'm talking to, so I say dopey things . . . But it turned out that's exactly what he needed...
...many Americans are likely to make use of an artificial heart in the near future, but there are millions of us this winter who would like to hear about a drug that cures influenza...
Only two characters understand the dreadful disorienting power made manifest by the echo, and their answer to it is withdrawal from the world. One is a Hindu sage, Professor Godbole, a lively cricket of a man, hopping to some music only the brilliant Alec Guinness can hear. As Fielding busies himself with Aziz's defense, Godbole's comment is merely "You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same." The other is Mrs. Moore, Adela's traveling companion, almost comically regal at some moments, uncannily vulnerable in others, but always touched by mystery as Peggy Ashcroft...
...hear people say that we must not let our party be dominated by the narrow agendas of special-interest groups ... But when the critics get around to naming the groups whose agendas they object to, they usually name blacks, teachers, women and unions. And never mention oil interests, the banks, the right-wing PACs or the apostles of religious intolerance. And then in the next breath the reappraisers tell us to appeal to whites, to the middle class and to men. In other words, the objection to our party is not that we speak to special groups, but that...