Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Khe Sanh's commander, Colonel David E. Lownds, 47. With new NVA bunkers spotted only 300 yards from Marine lines, corpsmen with stethoscopes knelt on Khe Sanh's red clay to see if the enemy had tunneled underneath, as occurred around Dienbienphu. So far, they have heard nothing suspicious...
When Edwards heard that Jim Hines, Texas' world record-holding sprinter, still planned to run, he growled: "I hear he wants to play pro football. Some cats in Texas have personally said they'd fix it so he'd be on sticks if he's crazy enough to run in that meet." Hines withdrew, and so did Olympic High Jumper John Thomas, after receiving telephoned threats...
...that he apparently frightened even himself; in later years, he renounced his Ceret paintings, referring to them as having been "painted with my fingers." As Los Angeles Curator Maurice Tuchman tells it: "Soutine would install his mistress in a cafe, go in search of a Ceret picture he had heard some dealer owned, exchange a new picture for an old one, and ritually, happily destroy...
...should encourage renaissances and watch out for reformations "If a corporation suffers from a Luther," concludes Jay, "it should start looking for a Loyola." They should search for signs of stagnation and morbidity. Spain started going to pot under Philip II, but the death rattles of empire were not heard until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes, "can wield...
FOLK MUSIC Sing Love, Not Protest I have nothing to sing you that you've never heard...