Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks on the speech, writing it out himself on yellow legal pads. It contained major elements of the basic speech that he had delivered again and again during the primaries, and reporters who had followed him during those campaigns could finish many of the sentences as soon as they heard the first word or two. But the nation as a whole had not yet heard it. It was a mixture of carefully balanced political calculations and genuine personal warmth. It was, by any reasonable standard, corny, but it also was one of Nixon's most effective speeches in years. Gone...
...moderate by Maryland standards and a liberal by Deep South criteria, there was the suspicion that he was on the ticket to placate Thurmond and other segregationists. Not only liberals protested. Colorado Senator Peter Dominick howled: "There are 2,000,000 people in my state who have never heard of Agnew. It's a terrible choice...
Imagine a golf nut stationed in the Soviet Union, with nary a golf course in sight. That's how it was for U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson until friends in the United States Golf Association heard of his plight and rushed a portable driving net to Russia. It was promptly installed outside the residence, tensions eased, and Mr. Ambassador is happily walloping golf balls. Joseph C. Dey Jr., executive director of the association, sees it as "the beginning of a new and insidious invasion of Moscow." After all, the bug is catching...
...film-fashioned realism by the circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until 1962, though privately he enjoyed drawing...
...American church, took note of this hostility in his opening address at the 1,800-year-old Theater of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis. "It sometimes seems to us," he said, "that you keep us at a distance, that you consider us strangers. Let it not be heard from your lips, that we have strayed from Hellenism...