Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first taken seriously ill in office that Congress earnestly commenced to consider the problem. After Ike's heart attack in September 1955 and his ileitis attack last year, Ike strongly urged that Congress act on the problem. A special five-member Judiciary subcommittee, appointed to study presidential inability, heard a proposal from then Attorney General Herbert Brownell for a constitutional amendment that would spell out the mechanics of certification: 1) the President could declare himself in writing unable to discharge his powers and duties and surrender them to the Vice President, 2) the Vice President, upon receiving approval...
...Suite 361 of the Senate Office Building, Vice President Richard Nixon was working on a bulky folder of business letters when the intercom buzzed. Nixon picked up the phone, heard the receptionist announce from an outer office: "Governor Adams on red." Nixon pushed the red button: "Yes, Sherm?" Came the dry voice of White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams: "Can you come down here soon?" Replied Nixon: "Yes." Asked Adams, with an uncharacteristic note of urgency: "Could you come right away?" "Sure," said Nixon. "Fine," said Adams-and the telephone clicked...
Before the United Nations Political Committee in New York City last week, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau made the most vigorous and persuasive statement yet heard of the case for French rule in Algeria. Excerpts...
...train they rode from Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because "He rolls his eyes and makes a peculiar noise . . . The child is not foolish but is lacking in many ways. I do not wish to send him to public school...
...most unorthodox. In keeping with Bach's principle that any number can play, Richter had the work performed by only eight players-two violas, a cello, two violas da gamba, two string basses and a harpsichord. It emerged as a chamber work with crystal transparency, uncovering contrapuntal voices heard as they were seldom heard before...