Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged straight into Britain's Judge Advocate General's office. "I had no appointment," he recalls, "but they let me in. They were very nice to me, and they listened." Slowly and ponderously the machinery of justice began to roll, and last fortnight Torturers Kinoshita and Yoshida heard their sentences before a British court: life imprisonment for the former, twelve years for the latter...
Organized opposition is ruthlessly suppressed, but no positive effort is made to remold the tough Spanish character. Private criticism is heard everywhere; it is amazingly bold and seems to go unpunished...
Last week, Louisville, swelling with local pride, heard its second premiere. While a packed audience in Columbia Auditorium clapped a hearty welcome, Virgil Thomson strode to the podium, ducked his round, balding head, and stared briefly ahead with his pale blue eyes. Then, brisk and businesslike, he drove Louisville's 50-piece Philharmonic through his Wheat Field at Noon, a series of well-plowed variations on two twelve-tone themes. When the ride was over, Louisville gave him an ovation. As a bonus, Composer Thomson led the orchestra in another little thing he had written, Bugles and Birds...
...sudden, with a rule change here, a new technique there, games that used to be well-balanced and even-paced had become frantic high-scoring battles. Judging by attendance, and audience enthusiasm, the crowds liked it that way. But here & there a small voice could be heard-asking what had happened to football, hockey and basketball...
...power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz. In New Haven last week, a protest was heard. A test game, permitting only three offense players in the attacking zone at any time, was played before 25 New England prep-school coaches. Said Richard Cuyler, co-coach of South Kent School's hockey team and a leading opponent of power-play hockey: "The power play results in more rough play in the end zone, often resulting in organized shinny, indiscriminate shooting, banging...