Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December 8: The Undergraduate Council, of whom the student members of the CCL are representatives, opens the floor to hear other reps' views of the matter. No vote is taken, but all who speak request that the CCL members act to sever the ties...
...month since Popieluszko was buried, his tomb in the graveyard of Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka church has been turned into a makeshift shrine, decked with wreaths and Solidarity banners. Early last week more than 30,000 Poles jammed streets surrounding the church to hear the monthly "Mass for the Fatherland" that Popieluszko began shortly before the imposition of martial law. The parish priest at St. Stanislaw Kostka, Father Teofil Bogucki, delivered a tough homily charging that 40 years after the imposition of Communism in Poland, "society is paralyzed with terror and people are worn out by hopelessness...
Bartender: Not bad for heavy humor, but I hear Teddy came back with a letter to the editor that said, "When I get down to my fighting weight, which I plan to do, I would hope the Globe's policy of fairness will entitle me to the same expansive coverage...
...first day on the witness stand, General William C. Westmoreland described how he made frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection to his $120 million libel suit against CBS. For briefings are also what journalism is about?gathering facts, asking questions and then briefing a public that hasn't the time or the patience to hear...
...simply that they believe this system perverts and prostitutes one of life's greatest pleasures, listening to music. And it probably deadens people's ability to enjoy music that they do listen to by choice. And the whole process is coercive. People who did not want to hear radio music pumped into them on Washington buses carried their objections all the way to the Supreme Court, only to have the court rule in 1952 that this invasion of their privacy was not an invasion of their privacy. (Justice William Douglas' dissent reasserted the principle that "the right...