Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After all," the witness pleaded, "it is we little guys, we consumers, who ultimately pay all of the taxes. Lots of us small fellows are becoming more & more alarmed about the increasing rate at which our Federal Government is spending our money. We have heard that almost all who come before you do so with hat in hand and tin cup held out . . . We come to strengthen the hand of those of you in both houses of the Congress who are concerned with the mounting cost of Government...
...hour and 16 minutes after the vote-counting started in Eastern Canada and long before the polls closed on the West Coast, it was obvious that the people wanted no change in the government they had had for the last 14 years. By the time the whole country was heard from, the Liberals were back in office with the greatest majority in their party's history...
Page after page of the Star was given over to outright plugging for the Liberal Party. No story about the Tories got into print unless it could be made an insult. When Tory Leader George Drew was well received in the Maritimes, the Star ignored it. When boos were heard at a Drew meeting in Halifax, the Star rediscovered him and played up the boos...
...isolation the island has been as unheedful of tourists as it has been unspoiled. It has an atmosphere as singularly its own as the soft-spoken mixture of Irish brogue and Scottish burr heard in the outports where the toast is likely to be "I bows taward ye." In its quiet, trim little seaside hamlets, with their gaudy-hued houses and limed picket fences, the sightseeing visitor can get a thrill of discovery to match the sportsman's strike in the Humber's pools...
...France's navy, had done the best he could, but he was fighting with one hand. In the opening round, the first time he threw a left hook, he had torn the elevator muscle in his left shoulder. From Challenger Jake La Motta's corner, he heard the entreaties of La Motta's handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: " 'At's it, Jackson. 'Atta go, Jackson . . . put the bomb in." Jake (alias Jackson) never put the bomb in. Just before the bell for the tenth round, Cerdan's manager decided...