Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users of the canal." When the foreign ministers around the table heard that word "cooperation," they had their answer...
...story might have ended-except for an anonymous letter that found its way to Scotland Yard and the press. The letter implied that the Rev. Mr. Ross was still very much alive and in happy residence with the Widow Ryall. "A fantastic rumor!" said Eileen Ross when she heard of it. "My husband is dead." But newsmen soon found a more enthusiastic listener in Mrs. Ryall's daughter Wendy, 23. "I'wouldn't be at all surprised," said Wendy coyly. Then, warming to the talk, she blurted: "I want to clear the air. The death...
...hand as accused and witnesses, conscious of their wide audience, poured out evidence of the people's hatred of their Communism. Typical was the testimony last week of a witness who told how, on the fateful day of the workers' riots, he had heard shouts of "Away with the dictatorship" and "Away with the occupation," and had seen people destroying court records, judges' robes and golden chains of legal office. "Why is there so little respect for justice in our country?" this witness asked...
...quarrel with Stalin) as a "bourgeois diplomat." And to underscore Molotov's attitude towards Tito himself, a story was being told of a Peking reception at which Red China's Mao Tse-tung inquired of the Belgrade ambassador, "How is Tito?" and Molotov, standing near by, was heard to say, "That...
...Mississippi "for at least the next 50 years. We don't intend to obey the Supreme Court's decision because it is not based on law." But, he assured the newsmen, "there is no tension or malice or ill will between the races. I have not heard of any trouble where [Negroes] have voted." Most Negroes do not vote, he said, because of unwillingness to pay the poll tax or failure to pass a literacy test...