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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian, I resent the blasphemy against Jesus Christ that has been heard in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [Feb. 2]. As an American, I resent the sniping at our President and other loyal Americans. As a man, I resent the efforts of CBS to foist upon the public as "comedians" two of the most uninspired straight men ever to step into the spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...with thin armor but powerful guns, the first Communist use of tanks in the entire war. The tanks deployed in classic fashion east and west of the outpost, then rolled right through the camp's wire and up onto the bunker roofs, followed by North Vietnamese infantrymen. "We heard them," says a Green Beret, "but we never thought they were tanks. We thought they were our generator acting up." Soon the Communists started shoveling satchel charges, grenades, napalm and tear gas down the air vents in an effort to dis lodge the defenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fall of Lang Vei | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...just told a rally of his Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been filed by a young German news agency reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The Ravensburg Incident | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...culmination of 20,000 hours of labor over ten years. And to Peggy Fleming, 19, a raven-haired Colorado College coed, the effort was all worthwhile when she stepped onto the winner's podium at Grenoble last week and heard played The Star-Spangled Banner for the first and perhaps only time in the 1968 Winter Olympics. "This feeling," said Figure Skater Fleming, "can never be shared-even by the richest people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strictly 24-Carat | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller and Economist Robert Theobald, DeCarlo had been invited to address the assembly. "It was the easiest speech I ever gave," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lessons in Mind Blowing | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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