Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as he gratefully approached Pittsburgh, 'This is the first time I ever passed through three states without having a drink.' " See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Summer...
...challenging the 3,500, the registrar ordered the Negroes to appear within ten days to prove their identity. So many Negroes did turn up that the registrar had to fall back upon yet another stratagem: her office was so .busy, she said, that only 50 challenged Negroes could be heard every day; the rest were struck off the rolls...
During last week's test, four Air Force officers and a civilian stood unprotected on the ground below the point of explosion. They felt a hot blast, a rush of air and heard a thunderous roar, but their Geiger counters proved what the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission hopefully expected: the amount of radioactive fallout was too slight to endanger a city's population if a Genie exploded overhead...
Ellis, now a sportswear salesman, was in his car looking for a new house in Miami when he heard the news over the radio. "I pulled over to the curb and stopped the car and I couldn't help it-I started to cry," he said. "I would have cried longer, but I was in a no-parking zone...
...Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that beneath their millinery could be found lightweight steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor...