Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airily, he put up collateral for a $200,000 loan for the striking A.F.L.-C.I.O. flight engineers of Eastern Air Lines-why shouldn't flight engineers be added to Jimmy's dream of a Teamster-dominated joint transport council? He heard requests for loans from four Miami Beach hotels, decided he would grant two. (The Teamsters already have $3,000,000 invested in fancy Miami Beach real estate and plan to double the sum.) He announced plans to organize employees of Sears, Roebuck and of Tampa breweries. Then came Jimmy's bombshell: he had already begun...
Beneath the sound of saber rattling could be heard one steady note, that Russia is there to stay in East Germany, and that the usefulness of this unhappy but economically valuable possession is jeopardized by West Berlin's shiny attraction. West Berlin continues to draw up to 10,000 East German refugees each month-including much of the intellectual elite, doctors, technicians, professors and university students...
...long white robes, the delegates trooped to the platform to give thumbs-up salutes, hands-up salutes, and to cry, "Africa! Africa! Africa!" One gentleman from little Dahomey delivered a speech while waving three placards at once. Regrettably, one of the most colorful heads of delegation was not heard. He went by the name of Cissé Zakaria, and called himself Crown Prince of Mauretania and General of the Liberation Army, but an alert Accra hotel clerk quickly tagged him as the deadbeat who had run up a ?79 bill on previous visits to Accra, and he was advised...
Since Sputnik III was launched seven months ago, Stanford has picked up its orbiting ghost during three periods of several weeks each. The ghost could be heard for three to five minutes (v. five to 15 minutes for the Sputnik itself...
...voice cranked up, it came out lower than any of the other kids'. "Children have such high voice," she remembers wistfully. "They read their lessons together, way up there. And I read my lesson, way down there." Then, one day during music class at school, the teacher heard a new voice and asked in surprise. "Who's that?" Suddenly Miyoshi Umeki could sing...