Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washed Out. When the question of cancellation came up, he wrote, "I started to give my opinion, but before I had talked more than a minute you advised me that you had another appointment and would discuss this matter with me at a later date." He next heard of the matter five days later, Sullivan said, when he was told by a long-distance telephone call that Johnson had washed out the whole carrier project...
What the House heard was a complete denial by the Defense Secretary of any plan to transfer the Marine or naval aviators to any other service, i.e., the Air Force. He could not do it under law, he admitted, and there had been no thought of any such move anyhow. Said Johnson humbly: "I want you to know that before any step of this kind would be seriously considered, I should ask permission to discuss the matter before the committees of both houses of Congress...
Minister of Armed Forces A.M. Vasilevsky flung the Politburo's May Day greeting into the sea of onlookers. If he had heard about an impending settlement at Berlin, he gave no indication of it. He cried: "Reactionaries are trying to unleash a new war . . . directed against the U.S.S.R...
...believe the Huks did it," said shocked President Elpidio Quirino, when he heard the news. "Mrs. Quezon was loved too much." Police assured Quirino that the Huks were responsible, all right. At Doña Aurora's funeral, the sobbing President placed a single flower on the grave of the widow. Then, over the Philippine radio, he called for an all-out campaign against the terrorists...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...