Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy consequences, say U.S. diplomats, Nasser is no longer a hero on horseback ready to lead the Arabs to glory, no longer so sure of himself, and blows hot and cold. Though he has weathered the immediate storm, his long-range position is bad and getting worse. Diplomats have heard that he is having trouble with his colonels, and the news that Egypt really took a bad beating in Sinai is getting around as the first of 5,800 Egyptian P.W.s returned home in exchange for what the Israelis say is Nasser's one captured Israeli...
...Germany will now pass under the command of a man who fought against them in two wars. The French, who might have been expected to make a fuss, were already taken care of; only in Britain, which will have four divisions under Speidel's command, could there be heard the suppressed sound of tight-throat swallowing...
...insisted that it would take him the better part of another session to finish his case. So far, Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon was anti-Indian, later accused Pakistan's Noon of "sheer impertinence," and snapped arrogantly: "We have suffered in the past...
...conductor of the New York Philharmonic (with Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is very likely to quit soon). This week he wound up a six-week conducting stint with the Philharmonic that was notable for his unhackneyed programing, e.g., Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Vivaldi's rarely heard Concerto for Strings, Cembalo and Two Mandolins. As always, the critics found fault here and there?his extraordinary gyrations have earned him, in some quarters, a reputation as the Presley of the Podium?but no one could deny Conductor Bernstein's virtuosity. He is the first U.S.-born conductor with...
Until he was 16, Lennie never heard a live symphony orchestra, but later he would often take his girls to Boston's Symphony Hall. One night, he and a girl named Mildred heard Koussevitzky. At the end of the concert there was an ovation, but Lennie just sat there, clapping very softly. "What's the matter?" asked Mildred. "Didn't you like it?" Said Lennie: "I'm so jealous...