Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasional cheer is still heard in the dining hall on a rare Saturday night, but the cheerleader now stands in danger of being alone. The periodic smokers have also lost the added zip they once possessed...
Hanford is the last surviving member of the quartet which heard Edward Harkness suddenly announce that he would give 13 million dollars to implant the House system at Harvard. He remembers how President Lowell used to call him up in the evenings to ask him to come discuss some aspect of the House blueprints with...
...People's slate won by a landslide in the Democratic primary, which in Texas is really election. Juan Smiths rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces]. It was the damndest thing I ever heard of." Wrote another: "I have always admired your crusade for democratic and just principles. I don't know what in hell would have happened...
...converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste of vicarious power and destiny when he heard that this shabby comrade had become the great Trotsky, Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
Pole Fault. In Seattle, a court heard James J. Keesling complain that a power pole, with an arm over his property line, marred his view, awarded him $1 a day for 1,238 days...