Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news." he said, "calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political and monstrous...
...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
...father a no-nonsense man, but the Nimers were conspicuously unquarrelsome. According to everyone, they were very happy people, and so too was Dean. The Orem pediatrician who examined him for five years called him robustly healthy; Utah's sole children's psychiatric clinic had never heard of Dean Nimer...
...moments, and it provides an ideal vocal showcase for a dramatic soprano. In the last five years, Maria Callas has virtually made the role over in her own fiery image (she will sing it again in November with the Dallas Civic Opera). But San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Adler heard Soprano Farrell sing Medea in concert form, decided to give the opera its first U.S. production as the curtain raiser for San Francisco's six-week season. The production is tailored to make the most of Farrell's opulent voice and to minimize the defects of acting...
...daytime and well-lit Wigg windows at night (in this sublimating summer age), who scrawl bits of free verse on toilet paper tissue and pursue the Muse enthusiastically. Like the grimy fellow who whispered over his Haffenreffer malt liquor: "How could James know about life? You heard about the bicycle accident he had when he was young? Well...