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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things relatively easy since I am under 30, but as the mother of a 2½-year-old, a 17-month-old and a four-month-old, and as the foster mother of two turtles, I'm certain that I do qualify for this category. I have never heard my malady described so aptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...imagine the furor if a group of Roman Catholic bishops should subject a Protestant candidate to a formal questioning of matters concerning his faith! The howl would be heard from Washington to Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

There was scarcely a campaign poster to be seen or an election speech to be heard, and the one opponent to Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 63, had his own typically Liberian reason for bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...down his pen and quit taking notes. He heard no more of the lecture, he was too involved in the task of working his rubbers off his feet. He wiggled discreetly in his chair, pushing one heel against the other until, finally, his Cordovans stood naked to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...exactly what difficulties he had met with. We were not satisfied with the cursory inspection of the Boston metalworking plant, "Choiser and Schluger," and the Chicago steelcasting "Saut Work," and it would have been very annoying not to visit the famous Chicago slaughterhouses, about which we had heard and read so much...

Author: By Kent Geiger, | Title: Soviet Article "Reports" Student Exchange | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

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