Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Charles Hopkinson was portraying Calvin Coolidge, he tried to animate the President's Vermont-granite features by inquiring into one of the great crises in Coolidge's life: "What was your first thought, Mr. President, when you heard that Harding had died?" Without any change of expression Coolidge twanged: "I thought I could swing...
Soon after World War I, outside influences began to creep behind Amana's calico curtain. Young people wanted more than the eighth-grade education allowed by the elders. Secret radios were heard in defiance of a church ban, bicycles appeared, and one man even drove a car home. Worst of all, young Amanas began drifting away, seeking work and a richer, livelier life in the cities. "Human nature simply asserted itself," Dr. Henry G. Moershel, 58, Amana's longtime president, explained last week. "People were getting their keep whether they worked or not, and many were starting little...
...internal troubles, last week made plain its determination to cause friction and perhaps war all along its southern borders. That intent became unmistakable even to India. The long unrealistic era in which the two largest nations on earth coexisted peaceably because one of them saw no evil or heard no evil seemed at last to be ending...
...another change of attitude seems in the making. The Dalai Lama, sitting in exile in Mussoorie, had been warned to create no embarrassment for India. But he has been increasingly upset by news he has heard from Tibetan refugees making their way to safety in India. They report that thousands of monks have been placed in Red labor camps, that the vast Tibetan monasteries have been left in the hands of a few quislings, and perhaps 80,000 Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese...
...week-long meeting went on, delegates heard an earful of reports and recommendations. Items...