Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumors spread through the capital, Michiko Shoda suddenly left Japan, on her first trip abroad, visited Europe and the U.S., where she heard Pianist Van Cliburn play his first concert in Carnegie Hall. There were letters along the way from the prince, and, troubled, Michiko wrote her parents: "I don't believe commoners should be united with the imperial family. I doubt if such a step would have good results." To the prince she wrote: "I hope you will let me be a close friend of yours for a long, long time...
...Pledged free elections, heard his supporters roar back, "No elections!" Replied the Prime Minister piously: "This shows to what extent politics have become discredited in Cuba...
...teenagers. At one meeting some 2,000 of them stepped forward after he had pitched them a line of rock 'n' rollery: "In America, teenagers have a language all their own and think that grownups are all squares because they can't dig the jive. I heard of one of these cats who went to church and said to the minister: 'Dad, you really blasted me this morning-you were real cool, Dad-cool, I mean cool, Dad. That jive of yours so beat me that I dropped $20 in the plate!' And the minister...
...read Ernest Hemingway's 472-page novel about the Spanish Civil War. Frankenheimer's request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud on TV. Examples : the stilted, literally translated phraseology that Hemingway used to suggest Spanish ("What passes with you?" "How are you called?") and the mountainside love scene ("Oh, I die each time. Do you not die?" "No. Almost. But did you feel the earth move...
Discarding its usual veil of silence, the staid Federal Reserve Board last week issued its harshest criticism of U.S. price-boosting heard in recent years. Up before the Senate antitrust subcommittee stepped the Fed's research director, Ralph A. Young, with the charge that industry's price hikes-notably in autos and steel-cut demand and employment even further during the recession. Industry, he said, "needs to use more often the time-tested prescription of lower prices as a cure for inadequate demand and to resort less to appeals to Government...