Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, a U.S. citizen was sentenced to die as a traitor to the U.S. In all U.S. history, only a handful of traitors have heard that sentence. None has actually been executed as a traitor...
...Berlin debate started, Vishinsky took copious notes. Then he threw down his earphones and started to read a French Socialist paper. Then he started listening again. What he heard made him plainly uncomfortable...
...Hotel's lounge, where Leopold Amery sat, sparrowlike, on the edge of a big easy chair, munching a cracker and talking to a circle of followers. In the opposite corner sprawled Anthony Eden, expounding his viewpoint to his own group of disciples. Both had to shout to be heard above the squeaky strains of a teatime violin, piano and cello...
When Charles de Gaulle heard of the Herriot-Thorez discussions, he quickly made his position clear: "If the separatists [the R.P.F. name for Communists] were to enter what is conventionally known as the government of France, from that moment legitimacy would be ended . . . If the wretches were to invite into the government the men who do not play the game of France, then who would dare to say that we would still be in a state of legality...
...Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things. But as Li'l Abner said "Ah Do" and heard the awful words, ". . . man an' wife," he suddenly realized that nothing had happened...