Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's staunchest allies in the fight against red ink are Budget Director Stans and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, who has taken to arriving at his desk by 7:30 a.m., staying until 7 p.m. or later, and was recently heard to mutter wearily: "Somebody has got to invent a 48-hour day." Anderson and Stans hope to hold down fiscal 1960 spending (beginning next July) by cutting into the scandalous $7 billion-a-year cost of farm programs, switching to the states some federal responsibilities for slum clearance, aid to the aged...
...then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...Grab Life Jackets!" Rimmed on the lake shores were radio operators who heard the call, heard the voice of Captain Roland Bryan shouting...
...eleven years ago. This time Rodzinski was hampered by scant rehearsal time and by the fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan, and Mezzo Grace Hoffman as Brangaene, Rodzinski shaped a youthfully vibrant production, as remarkable for its knotted dramatic tensions as it was for its moments of shadowed repose...
...Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve and caustic charm. She could be gossipy ("The Hayes suffer much from rats in the White House who run over their bed and nibble the President's toes"), or just plain lethal ("Not until I had seen and heard Judge Drake of the Court of Claims did I know what an ass was & is-he must be self made-it would be blasphemy to attribute him to any other creator...