Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the summer when the Cambridge Drama Festival was playing to packed houses across the Yard from us, the Brattle Theatre made more money than at any other period in its existence (we celebrate our sixth anniversary on February 1). A lot of people who had never heard of the Brattle Theatre as an art movie theatre came to Cambridge to CDF performances and then returned to Cambridge to visit the Brattle. Excitement over the arts stimulates furthe interest; it is narrow-minded to suppose otherwise...
...certain number of men go on to advanced combat training, either in infantry, artillery, or armor--the toughest "schoolings" open to the RFA. Advanced infantry, for instance, is a continuation of basic training. The trainee fires weapons he only heard about in basic--the light machine gun, the recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge...
...They" were the Democrats, heard loud and clear the moment the budget was dropped on Capitol Hill. From Senate
...Friendly Emulation." In Peking, Lo had heard much about what the government had done for the peasant, but the peasants in the village where he was sent had apparently been overlooked. They lived in mud huts, got bread only when they worked, got seven feet of cloth a year with which to clothe themselves. Bitter and resentful, they never complained, for "everyone is afraid in China." Lo worked 16 hours a day, slept in his clothes to keep warm, did not take a bath for three months. Finally, he hit upon a way to escape...
...biggest bloodletting took place one morning at Santiago's Campo de Tiro firing range, in sight of the San Juan Hill, where Teddy Roosevelt charged. A bulldozer ripped out a trench 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half got blindfolds...