Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that cries of panic and defeat resounded throughout the West, increased by hints of "volunteers'' from the East. Headlines, further exaggerating newspapers' excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon and the whole Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing...
Delegates heard reports that Adventist membership at the present is 1,102,910, having doubled in the past ten years (up from 75,000 at the beginning of the century). Proportionately, the Adventists also make the biggest financial contributions to their church-more than $225 million in the past four years. To the Cleveland conference, delegates brought $1,260,500 in cash and checks for missionary work, used a Brink's truck with gun-toting guards to haul it off safely...
What the visitors heard last week was music pushed a step beyond the otherworldly compositions of French musique concrète, which utilizes natural sounds taped and glued together in weirdly unnatural order. The resident composers at the Cologne studio tend to abandon natural sound in favor of sounds artificially manufactured on tape. Represented at the demonstration were Hungarian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 34, whose Articulation consisted of a series of blips and plops dramatically relieved by an occasional electronic belch, and Composer Gottfried Michael Koenig, 32, whose Essay punctuated its eerie, sustained sonorities with harplike electronic roulades. But the high...
...meets-native dialogue from the National Osographic: "Evelyn stepped forward and asked in Swahili, 'What I want to know, and I want you to give me a straight answer to, is-I mean-I want to know if you really got cannibals up this way. I mean I heard the rumble. I know the story...
...carrying as incongruous a crew as ever penetrated the steaming wilderness. They were securities salesmen, hardy young men carrying briefcases, who were on their way to sell a 208 million-cruzeiro ($1.6 million) issue of stock in Willys Overland do Brasil to back-country natives who had never even heard of Wall Street...