Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sturgis, Ky. (pop. 2,222), which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
When Russia's Yuri Stepanov racked up a world's record high jump of 7 ft. 1 in. early this summer, western trackmen admitted to mild surprise. Few had ever heard of Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly...
...developing an overall battle plan to combat Asian flu, members of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers of the U.S. heard reports advising 1) weekly flu-situation bulletins, to be submitted" by the states to the Public Health Service, 2) integration of disaster and welfare agencies into a master plan, 3 ) establishment of a National Commission on Influenza to deal with future flu epidemics...
...short order Hubbard resigned and River Oaks State Bank closed. The FBI was brought in, spent ten months tracking down thousands of checks written on 47 accounts in twelve banks and cashed as far away as Wichita, Kans. On their evidence, the grand jury cracked down. U.S. District Attorney Heard Floore said that Hubbard and four others had cashed more than $10 million in rubber checks from June of 1956 (when Hubbard left the Bank of Commerce and bought into River Oaks) until last October...
...reproof struck Jim regularly. Recalls his senior-year roommate: "Jim had read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he decided Christianity was a lot of hooey. He thought he should enlighten Father Sill, and went over to see him in his study. I remember I was downstairs, and suddenly I heard Father Sill-we called him the Holy Terror-yell, 'Get out of my study, you dirty, stinking little coward!' Jim left, protesting all the while, 'But sir, this is most unfair...