Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Added the navigator, Lieut. Colonel George Gradel: "Everything felt wrong. The aircraft had gone into a dive. Once that happened, it happened fast. Then I heard a voice which just said, 'Bail...
...Bernardino (1380-1444), famed for his dynamic oratory, used the hard sell to inspire a more fervent faith in his listeners. St. Clare (1193-1253), lying ill in her convent on Christmas Eve, is said to have seen and heard a midnight Mass being celebrated two miles away...
...subtle was the spread of existential thinking in psychotherapy that for a quarter-century it made no mark in the English-speaking world. The most eminent Freudians in Britain today still haughtily deny that they ever heard of it-a pose difficult to maintain in view of the fact that the International Congress of Psychotherapy at Barcelona in September was centered on existential analysis. At this meeting Dr. May explained why its influence in the U.S. has so far been negligible. A pragmatic tradition tracing back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious...
...Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls of aggrieved outrage from Cartoonist Chester Gould who says he has never even read Nabokov's book. ("Nymphet?" said Gould. "That's the biggest word I've heard today.") To him, Lolita sounds like a waste of time...
...Year approached, made the ascent unnoticed. For want of want ads, the unemployed lost job opportunities, apartments stayed unrented, dogs stayed lost. Men were convicted or acquitted without public attention, the scores of sports events went unreported, Christmas charities were hard put to make their appeals heard. And many a citizen whose passing would have been noted on the obituary pages-even if it had to be by a paid notice-died known only to his friends...