Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME never doubted Hotpoint's ability to play it cool, thought the salesman would cool off before the blonde heard the tune. Tenderly...
...full days and close to 100 hours. My time is worth $30 an hour. I've given the service. It was a personal sacrifice to me." Furthermore, he thought he was merely following the widespread medical practice of charging (within limits) what the traffic will bear: he had heard that the Hoopers had got a lot of money in donations. Not so, retorted the Hoopers; they had only got $2,400, had given $1,000 to the Manorville fire department, which played a big part in the rescue. Kris said he would not "crowd" the Hoopers, but eventually...
...started what Danish Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some of his merchant father's best fabrics to help a poor priest, he stepped out of his fine clothes before...
...near approach of Mars last summer was a sad disappointment to astronomers. A dust storm that veiled the planet's disk foiled the fanciest apparatus. But last week's meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific at Flagstaff, Ariz, heard a few bits of Martian news that had shown through the dust curtain...
...When Gay heard that CBS was thinking of a morning hillbilly show, he cut a pilot film of Dean that sold CBS bigwigs. Within two weeks Jimmy Dean had become the first performer in three years to clout NBC in the morning rating war. His fans wrote up to 25,000 letters a week. (Sample: "It's about time the damyankees gave a good country boy a chance...