Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for What?" Both notes were sounded by Truman: "I have heard that there are members of Congress who expect to do most of their economizing in the budget this year by voting to cut the funds for foreign economic aid . . . People will forgive us for spending too much in the search for peace; they will never forgive us for refusing to spend enough . . . We are planning to spend $40 billion on defense next year . . . The only thing we can do with armaments is to buy time. Buy time for what? . . . The mutual security program is the cutting edge...
...program closed with the alumni and an HGC recording singing "Fair Harvard," a sentimentality somewhat clouded by a slowing down of the record and a subsequent destroying of the melody. The guests tried to continue singing, but most people eventually collapsed with laughter, and President Pusey was later heard to remark, "The New Haven radio station was no doubt jamming...
...CRIMSON report failed to point out that, far from charging corruption of ballot-stuffing, Dave Peterson immediately after losing by one vote moved that the election of Alec Dawson be made unanimous. I was sitting in front of Dave and heard him reject the suggestion made by Bruce MacGregor that he demand a recount...
...Pete had an old piano goods for noise but no tone-so they let the rhythm carry the tune, and they had more than enough of that. And pretty soon the people got to like the noise, and things moved fast and loud, like anybody'll tell who's heard an old-time band battle...
Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...