Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivor heard the "agonized screams" of wounded and dying comrades, and single pistol shots-coups de grace administered by Germans who walked among the fallen victims after the machine-gunning stopped...
When Queen Mary heard that the specialists were advising another physician because of her son's illness (TIME, Dec. 6) it was only natural that she, like Victoria, should rap the ground with her walking stick and back her protege...
...fellow musicians had kept their opinions to themselves when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad hit the comeback trail, two years ago, after merely accepting life in occupied Norway (TIME, Dec. 27). But when word got around that Furtwangler would be coming too, they set up an angry cry that could be heard all the way to Vienna...
University near Peiping, he had heard that in spite of Communist occupation all classes were maintaining their regular schedules. Dr. Lloyd S. Ruland, China secretary for the Northern Presbyterians, reported Communist soldiers not only attending Presbyterian missionaries' lectures, but also expressing surprise that Christianity teaches brotherly love and the brotherhood of man. But missionary leaders are well aware of what is likely to happen to such tolerant policies when the Communists have their military victory behind them. Said Dr. Ballou on the subject last week: "I've got more hope than I've got faith...
After his friend King Ludwig committed suicide, Rudolph longed to do the same. He pored over newspaper reports of suicide, discussed the subject endlessly with his friends. But the turning point in his miserable, pompous life came when he heard that the daughter of a cantor, out of love for him, had stood outside his window to see him, and died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress...