Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet high, Willie's photograph hung above the stage in the vast Manhattan Center, where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district attorney want...
...Rome last week, 400 Roman Catholic employers from Western Europe and Canada prepared to go home, carrying with them some memorable advice from Pope Pius XII. Delegates to the first international congress of UNIAPAC (International Union of Catholic Employers' Associations), they had heard the Pope deliver one of his clearest and most important statements to date on economic and social affairs...
...kind of lilting, easygoing melody in ¾ time that almost everyone thought he had heard before, but no one could remember exactly where or when...
After the first few days of defeat, the Voice and BBC rallied. They called up reinforcements (more transmitters) and settled down to a long, subtle contest. Soviet jamming proved that Voice programs were being heard by the Russian people and were feared by the Kremlin. Now all the Voice's Russian-language programs carry a punch line: "Obviously somebody considers it dangerous to permit the Soviet people to listen to truthful information from a free radio...
...grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought it for a few thousand dollars...