Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ozark, Ark., when a lawyer cross-examined a witness with "I hear you drink sometimes," the witness said: "You heard wrong. I drink all the time...
...that the President has remained silent on vital issues," he cracked. "On the contrary, we have heard many a bold platitude. We are given phrases instead of leadership, slogans instead of a program." Then, after a few bold platitudes of his own, Kennedy flew off to political rituals in three more states (an encounter with Oregon's candidate-heckling "Cavemen," a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Boise, Idaho, a prop-stop in Butte, Mont.) on a routine three-day weekend of campaigning away from Washington. Said a top politician, as Kennedy departed: "He'll murder Nixon."* Behind the Front...
...behind closed doors. Adenauer first wanted President Theodor Heuss's term extended, but was told the idea was unfeasible. For 4½ hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find a new presidential candidate, who would inevitably be of less stature than Erhard...
Despite Ben-Gurion's personal popularity, people were beginning to grumble, and last week they could be heard. The occasion was the election of a new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish...
...radio signal came bravely down from space. At last it faltered. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 85-ft. antenna at Goldstone Dry Lake, Calif, changed to a special filter and held the signal for a few minutes more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...