Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your article on Greece and the American Mission over here is really blunt and to the point...Many Americans (including the politicos) have the idea that wherever America sends aid and money, we are greeted with open arms. I have heard many Greek people express the opinion that the country would be better off if the Americans took their dollars and left Greece to its slow and inefficient way... These people are not Communist sympathizers, by any means...
...Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...
Britain liked what it heard. Birmingham's packed-house response to the first of the Philadelphia's 28 British concerts was as good a prescription for ailing Conductor Ormandy as the half-pound of U.S. beef the doctor had ordered him to eat before each performance...
Partisan Primo Camera, after killing dozens of Germans, was executed by the Nazis. Last fall, hale & hearty, non-Partisan Camera broadcast over Stern's show. Another time they heard that Abraham Lincoln's dying words, breathed to Colonel Abner Doubleday, inspired him to invent baseball, and that Thomas A. Edison's deafness came about after he was beaned in a ball game by Pitcher Jesse James...
Over the years his devoted listeners have heard amazing stories, described by Stern as "profiles and portraits for posterity." During the war he told them...