Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cast ahead to July, Walter Mondale is triumphant. The Democratic presidential nominee has rolled effortlessly to victory on the first ballot in San Francisco as most everyone in the political industry has predicted, as almost anyone who could hear and read has come to expect...
...defendants are resident aliens of Portuguese descent. Some speak English only haltingly, and they wear earphones to hear a Portuguese translation of the proceedings. Their background has tugged hard at the seams of ethnic tranquillity in New Bedford, a onetime whaling capital and mill town that in recent years had fallen on difficult times. Portuguese Americans, who make up more than half of the population of 98,000, have played a major part in rejuvenating the local fishing industry. But following the attack, anti-Portuguese slurs popped up on local radio call-in shows, as well as in countless private...
...Stuart is an outstanding young scholar in his field," says Giles Constable '50, Dumbarton Oaks director. "I was not terribly surprised to hear about his award. I felt that the selection committee at the MacArthur Foundation had the same sense as we did here at Dumbarton Oaks...
Fish emphasized that the match was by no means a runaway, but once Harvard won the contest with their fifth match victory, the Princeton players lost their incentive. "You lose something when you hear it's over," the Crimson mentor said...
...significance of Malcolm X's life was his diagnosis of the plight of the Black man in this country. He spoke a truth that many did not wish to hear, and ignited an anger that became hard to contain during violent times of change...