Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I heard the Rabbi say, through the din of protest, was what I know to be a fact: That Jews suffer no greater restrictions on their religious life than do others in Russia who still believe in God. Great numbers of Baptists and Orthodox Christians are no more, no less persecuted for their faith than Jews. Why must the American Jew assume he has a priority on suffering...
...Humphrey, looking ahead more to November than to August, the cajolery in Cleveland was all too typical of the reception he has been getting across the country. Crowds have been slim nearly everywhere, and sometimes hecklers and protesters seem to outnumber supporters. Philadelphia police estimated that 20,000 people heard Humphrey's Fourth of July speech in front of Independence Hall, but newsmen reckoned that the true figure was closer...
Kiesinger made a satisfactory witness for the defense. He conceded that he had heard Allied reports about German death camps but had dismissed the charges as "nothing but atrocity propaganda.""It was simply inconceivable to me," he said, "that such terrible things were happening. I knew Jews were being taken off. In my own house, a Jewish family was picked up and taken away, but I thought they must be put to work somewhere." Only in the final years of the war did he get the feeling that, in his words, "something terrible was happening...
...confess that at first I was strongly tempted to ignore your curious letter requesting guidelines on the art of being very, very rich. I simply did not believe your statement that you had suddenly acquired a yearly income of $5,000,000. Why hadn't I ever heard...
...first time, the U.S. revealed a witness who recognized Ray from FBI photographs as resembling a man he spotted in the rooming house during the afternoon of April 4. Charles Quitman Stephens, 46, in an apartment next to the bathroom, heard the shot. "I went out and saw a man running," Stephens said in an affidavit. "Although I didn't get a long look, I think it was the same man I saw earlier...