Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When a friend told him that a demonstration was in the making, he was against it. "But then I didn't like this way of life, and I was mad and so I said I'd go along." Peter was among the crowd at Parliament House, and later he heard the AVH shooting people at Radio Budapest. When somebody said get some arms, he went along...
...bread and tea. "Guys were sitting around everywhere. Many were sleeping on the floor." Sweating it out, Peter had time to think about the consequences of what he had done. He decided to go home. He told his wife he had been working all this time. But when he heard the official radio call the Freedom Fighters "counterrevolutionaries and fascists," he knew there would be reprisals, and he returned to the barracks, determined to fight it out. At the barracks, with everyone expecting the worst, the tall colonel told them that they were not counter-revolutionaries but only people...
That night the Queen sat on the edge of Clint's bed as she tucked him in, and said: "I heard what the prince told you today, and I agree with him. I believe you are a favorite pupil of Jesus." For a moment, two troubled eyes stared back at her. Then Clint said: "I don't believe it! I won't believe it unless my daddy says that he believes...
...begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left." "You can have it," Durocher replied, and kept on walking...
...garrison-minded were their commanders that they issued orders while the bombs were falling that ties would not be worn and officers no longer saluted. Author Stewart catches the quickening tempo of panic. As he and a buddy ordered a drink at the posh Manila Hotel bar, they heard a girl with a brittle laugh telling her escort: "I wired Mom that it would be just a fabulous adventure. Fabulous...