Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one or two noes were heard in the thundering voice vote...
...president of the syndicate added he has heard no objection to his plan among alumni friends. In fact, he has several alumni working as liaison between the team and the University in connection with the project...
...next few weeks, Gene was happier than he had been in two years. Several of his friends visited him and related news of the outside world. ("Professor Levin read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse...
...League of Political Education, conceived the Town Meeting program after being told by a neighbor that he would never listen to a fireside chat because he could not stand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Denny set up Town Meeting as a forum where both sides of any issue could be heard, umpired such hagglers as Harold Ickes and No Foreign Wars Committee Chairman Verne Marshall...
...alert the European underground for the invasion. It consisted of the first two lines of the poem Chanson d'Automne, by the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine. During a haggard all-night listening session on June 1, one of Meyer's 30-man radio-interception crew heard and taped the first part of the message: "Les sang-lots longs des violons de I'automne [The long sobs of autumn's violins].'' Meyer immediately telephoned Rommel's and Von Rundstedfs headquarters and tele-typed the message to General Alfred Jodl, Hitler...