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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped or fainted, and had fallen. In Scarsdale, his widow, Mrs. Helen Boyd Duggan, a onetime advertising executive, angrily told newsmen: "I deny that my husband had anything to do with Whittaker Chambers or . . . with spying. It's the biggest lot of hooey I ever heard. It just isn't so-any part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man in the Window | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...chapel, Hirota heard the cries. "What is that?" he asked. "Manzai?" (Manzai is the word for "comedy.") "Ah, banzai; I understand. Let us do it, too." The banzais of the three echoed out to the four in the courtyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Seven Old Men | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

When his friends heard of the letters, they warned George that he'd better move to the center of the town. His answer was: "I am not going [to] leave my home-I've fought in four wars and am not going to be frightened by these tramps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: SO LONG, FELLA | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Small Proof. When the guerrillas in the house heard no further resistance, they came up onto the roof. They kicked the two motionless bodies, which rolled off the roof and fell 20 feet to the garden below. There, others administered the coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: SO LONG, FELLA | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame alike among "straight" players and what he calls "the other kind"-meaning lowbrow jazz musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Respectable Rabbit | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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