Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never heard it said so well...
...significant creative work from east of the Mississippi. The whole cultural map of America is changing." He pointed to the paper-back I held. "He made it possible. He showed that a man with something to say, a voice of significance, a rare talent, can make itself heard no matter the din of garbage disposals and IBM machines." Even from the back streets and brothels of a hungry Paris...
...shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven times on CBS, eight on NBC, for spots averaging four minutes each (and losing each network two commercials). ABC also aired an on-the-spot pickup late...
...What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" So the U.S. might well ask (with Keats) at the alarming sound that was heard in the land last week. The same sort of sound had rent the air as General Washington was being pushed out of Brooklyn, as Napoleon went down at Waterloo, as the British in Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band...
Cold-turkey talk, served up by World Bank President Eugene R. Black, was the main dish last week for finance ministers of the world's underdeveloped countries. Meeting in Washington at the International Monetary Fund, sister of the World Bank, they heard Black give a polite accounting of the bank's biggest ($332 million disbursed around the globe) year since the Marshall Plan era. But far less polite was Black's accounting of how some of the loans were used...