Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told the Senate. "From the Book of Job to Charles Dickens to James Baldwin, we have read the ills of the cities. Our cities contain within themselves the flowers of man's genius and the nettles of his failures." Robert Kennedy called it "the best speech I ever heard in the Senate...
...Gorbanevskaya described what happened next in a letter to major Western newspapers. "Almost immediately, whistles were heard from all corners of the square, and plainclothes agents of the KGB [secret police] came running toward us. They shouted, 'These are all Jews!' and 'Beat the anti-Soviets!' They tore the banners from our hands and beat Viktor Feinberg in the face until the blood flowed, also breaking some of his teeth. Pavel Litvinov was beaten on the face with a heavy case. They shouted, 'Get out of here, you scum!' We remained seated...
Unmolested and little heard from all week was another novelist-turned-journalist, Norman Mailer, who was in town for Harper's. At the Grant Park rally, Mailer explained his uncharacteristic silence. "I'm a little sick about all this and also a little mad, but I've got a deadline on a long piece and I'm not going to go out and march and get arrested. I just came here to salute...
...fraud. Such police work intensified after Lawyer Manuel F. Cohen, an austere career civil servant, took over as SEC chairman in 1964. In the Merrill Lynch case, the SEC contends that not only the inside-tip giver is acting illegally, but also-and it is a word that was heard all over the Street last week -the "tippee...
...This has been used as a disguise so much that even the novice burglar comprehends that it is a falsehood and that no one is within the dwelling. When leaving your home for a shopping trip or an evening out, turn your radio on so that it can be heard by anyone standing near your front or rear door...