Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian and former student of Malcolm Kerr's, I often disagreed with him. Yet he was always willing to hear about the Palestinian problem and to be objective. Very few American intellectuals understood the Middle East dilemma as well as Kerr...
...both peasant born and a man of the people. He spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear. The best of good soldiers, he was Brezhnev's choice for the succession. But when Andropov was chosen, everybody assumed that Chernenko's career was finished. Instead, Chernenko apparently transferred his loyalty...
...those who are drumming up artificial arguments about the existence of the Jewish problem in the Soviet Union are complete bankrupts and hypocrites. The Zionist adventurists, who are playing with the fates of the people they have deceived in Israel and elsewhere, are clamoring for all the world to hear about denial to Jews of full freedom of emigration from the socialist countries to Israel. Numerous letters and eyewitness accounts show, however, that Zionist propagandists are pushing emigrants into a quagmire of political and economic hardships. As for the real situation in the field of Jewish emigration from the Soviet...
...where the Olympic flame burns, it spreads like the curved wing of a dove .... stretched out over the snow. Inside, there are comfortable wooden seats, polite ushers and concession stands that sell chocolate and local brandy, a better fix against a winter night than popcorn and beer. Yet to hear of the doings in the figure-skating competition that took place in this outwardly cheerful spot last week was to confuse sport with war dispatches. There were hints of dark intrigue ind geopolitical vote swapping. East met West, West met West, East met East, and almost all shot themselves...
...young Soviet pair, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, with whom the Carrutherses were tied, was the crucial one. Though Kitty and Peter had not watched it, there are some things that are impossible to hide from, even in the basement of an ice-skating arena. Said Kitty: "We could hear the crowd, and I knew they had missed. That made me more nervous. I thought of all the hundreds of times we've skated that program in practice, doing it perfectly day after day, but then I thought, 'Oh, but this is the only one that counts...