Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crawled away with twisted limbs. Some hung on, waited for the firemen. Fourth-Grader Ronnie Sarno, 10, fought to a window, called out to his nine-year-old sister Joanne: "I'm going to jump! Do you want to come?" As he eased himself over the sill, he heard her scream: "Don't jump, Ron! Don't jump!" And never saw her alive again...
...Hospital 16 blocks from the school, waited for word of dead and injured. Doctors rushed children into surgery. Nurses parted crowds to wheel beds carrying children and plasma poles. Priests moved slowly from group to group, lips moving. One man in the crowd, a truck driver, said: "I heard it on the radio. I come straight home. I told my wife, 'Where's the daughter at?' I looked here. She got a little burned on the side." Another screamed at his wife: "Why didn't you keep her home today?" A nurse came...
Touring the Japanese countryside, Garcia heard the cheers of dock workers, the praise of industrialists, even saw one of Japan's on-the-dot express trains brought to a halt so that his entourage could pass. "My God," remarked one Garcia aide, "the treatment we are getting! Here we are kings. In the United States [last June] we were beggars...
...West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard in the world today...
...years. Though it was written in collaboration with Anthony Creighton, Dillon shows unmistakable signs of being Osborne's work, and as such it was produced in London and New York. (If Creighton does not receive his due from audience or critics, it is because most of them have never heard of him, and have no way of knowing what...