Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror series he reported that almost no one seemed to have heard of the United Nations Report on Hungary, and he stated that when he asked the people if they had read it, he received only blank stares...
This couple also told him of student unrest in Russian universities, but Abrams expressed difficulty in assessing the exact extent of such discontent. "I heard conflicting stories," he told the Mirror. "Some students from Leningrad told me there had been a protest meeting at Leningrad University. When it was over, 45 students were expelled and were seen no more. They just disappeared. Other students denied these stories...
...Abrams heard from other sources, however, that there actually was some trouble at these "explanation" meetings. He said one Moscow University student told him of a mass walk-out when the speaker kept avoiding direct answers to embarrassing questions. And this same student related that another meeting was abruptly called off when the students started asking pointed questions...
Industrial Psychologist Donald N. Michael of Stamford, Conn, suggested that the best place to look for such women might be Russia, where women are encouraged to develop technical skill. The Soviet government, he had heard, is experimenting with putting women in isolation chambers to see whether they will prove to be the most resistant subjects...
Cops gulped as they read: "I saw the seamy underside of the police department . . . I got to know policemen who drank on duty, loafed on duty . . . I saw how saloonkeepers get parking tickets fixed . . . I heard my fellow policemen boast openly of freeloading on liquor and food -'living on the badge' they called it . . . Time and again I heard the smart-alec patrolman brag about his 'take,' repeating his motto: 'Never take a cigar that ain't wrapped in green...