Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around bird-watching with Wildlife Commissioner Earl Wallace and a couple of refuge employees. Then suddenly a crippled goose lurched across the horizon, and Happy, with nothing but euthanasian motives, blazed away. He and his companions were promptly collared for hunting afterhours by Game Warden Kendall Thomas, who had heard some after-hours goose and duck calls and was watching through binoculars...
...Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly after noon the next day he showed up again at the palace for luncheon. This time, as he began to doff his coat in the chilly foyer, Coty admonished...
Scene Stealer. It happened suddenly. A friend of mother's came looking for a girl to play a small part in a picture (Steinbruch) that he was making. When he saw Maria he asked her to read a minor role; when he heard her read, he offered her the main part. The picture was a hit, and papa gave in; she enrolled at Zurich's School of Theatrical Arts. "She worked like the devil," says one of her instructors. Within a few months she was starring in a stage version of the film she had made. The critics...
...carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
...State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck out of the party last month, the veteran (23 years) Congressman shouted: "I don't think two Republican Parties can beat one Democrat. We might as well face it. We're the minority party. I've heard talk I'm going to be purged. Well, a lot of people have tried that and I'm still here...