Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard the other day, as we recall it was one of those slightly windy fall days when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...
...revive Conservative enthusiasm," acknowledged the left-wing New Statesman. But the Economist thought the appointment "a mistake," forecasting that so robust and ambitious a spokesman would tend to report not what the constituencies want but "what he personally thinks they ought to want." Either way, Hailsham would soon be heard from, doing his provocative utmost to arrest what he calls "a fall in the tone of public controversy...
...Resign." One of the first orders directed General Phao, who had been forced to resign as police chief the week before, to surrender himself. Phao heard the order at home, went first to a nearby Chinese bar for two quick bracers, then to Sarit's headquarters. Along the way, Phao unbuckled his police automatic and chucked it into the viscid, green waters of a Bangkok canal. Sarit gave him two choices: leave the country or become a Buddhist monk. Phao chose to leave for Switzerland, where he can count his money. He had not been exiled, said a Foreign...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest Chet Huntley and wry David...