Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S. Frank Knox, who heard Buie's yell...
...that could well bring on the greatest wheat glut of all. In Washington, Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans to "sell" Benson in the farm belt, not sell him out. When Benson heard that news, an austere but unmistakable smile of victory spread across his face...
...moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching in a gumbo of blood. One was her brother Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, 61. notorious survivor of Chicago's Prohibition...
Over the telephone, the editor of the bimonthly United Mine Workers Journal heard the unmistakable rumbling voice of U.M.W. President John Llewellyn Lewis: "When are you going to lock up the page forms of the next edition?" The editor said the following Monday. Replied John L.: "Well, I may have something for you. I'll let you know." Hours before presstime last week, John L. Lewis sent over a letter that gave the Journal-and most U.S. newspapers-a headline: JOHN L. LEWIS RESIGNS...
India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean...