Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
...first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...commissioner Kelso, on hand to address the group, tried to ease the sense of gloom. He recounted to the throng that on a recent inspection trip to Knight Island he had seen a great pod of whales offshore. There were as many as 40, so close that he could hear the sound of their exhalations when they surfaced and the slap of their flukes when they dived once more. Seeing how the huge sea mammals were skirting the oil but not fleeing the area gave Kelso new optimism about Alaska's ability to recover. Said he: "I realized that there...
...York Mayor Ed Koch, for one, does not care to hear excuses for the violence of the young. "You name one societal reason," he said, "that would cause people to engage in a wolf-pack operation, looking for victims." Throughout the week sociologists obliged, proffering familiar theories about why many delinquents of this generation do not content themselves with stealing hubcaps and breaking windows. The experts argue that too many families are broken, too many schools and communities are crumbling, too many drugs are available for children to acquire a sturdy sense of mercy or morality to guide their behavior...
...York State division of youth. "It does not answer the question Why do some teenagers in the same environment get into trouble and others do not?" There were those still willing to look for the hard answers last week. But others could only watch a woman in a coma, hear the noises of the city and wonder what might come next...