Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics to Prayers. Along with the bustle of preparations and plans, loud opposition to the Soviet leader's visit continued to be heard across the land. In Washington, a Committee for Freedom for All Peoples distributed black armbands to be worn while he is in the U.S., appealed to the nation for "solidarity with the victims of Communism by a concerted manifestation of national mourning.'^ Among the committee's backers: three U.S. Senators-Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Illinois' Paul Douglas and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, and two members of the House of Representatives...
...these familiar tones, tribal chieftains and courtiers came flocking to Hodeida to make their obeisance. The inept Prince Badr was let off with nothing worse than a rebuke for his lack of toughness, but the Yemeni radio stopped broadcasting army officers' speeches, and not a word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June. Clearly...
...Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion was this year's Kirchentag in Munich (TIME, Aug. 24), where no fewer than 2,000 Protestants went to confession in the two churches designated for the purpose. Says Pastor Hans Jacob of Bensheim, who heard many of them: "For 90% of them, confession was a new experience, and all of them felt it opened...
...harp ensemble, later set off to tour Europe with a flutist and a cellist. After a stint in the French army in World War I (wounded in action). Salzedo returned to the U.S. and got to work making the harp something better than one of those "extra" instruments rarely heard outside full-dress philharmonic orchestras...
...metaphysics. Then he set out to travel and write. Perhaps it is this kind of distance that removes Lover Man from the mountain of angry-Negro stories. Anderson is not mad at anyone. He is fascinated by the South, by what he has seen, and by what he has heard, and he manages to re-create that fascination for his reader...