Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airlift Wing, Marietta, Ga., was to be married the next day-and got a three-day pass from his commanding officer. Aviation Mechanic Ira Bennett, of the Navy's Squadron VA831 in New York City, also planned to be married this week. "I was in shock when I heard we were called," he said. "I'm just shaking...
Much in the manner of Charles de Gaulle listening to Britain's latest bid for Common Market membership, Congressman Wilbur Mills's Ways and Means Committee last week heard again the Johnson Administration's arguments for a 10% income tax surcharge. The answer, predictably...
...women gathered, burbling babes on many laps, in a kaffeeklatsch campaign so stimulating to Romney's cause that an undercover Nixonite grated: "We ought to get this going for Nixon now." Sipping coffee, munching doughnuts, shaking Romney's hand, the women heard him inveigh against godlessness, immorality, sloth, the decline of the family, even the English, whom he characterized as interested only in "two hots and a cot," or two square meals and a place to sleep. When it came to Viet Nam, however, so vague were his exhortations for the most part that even hard-liners...
...that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, and on Feb. 2 the last pockets of resistance collapsed. For three days thereafter, Germans at home heard nothing but mournful commentary and dirges on their radios...
...taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister Marian and the Melville brothers flew to Miami and then apparently doubled back to Mexico-where they have since been joined by their student followers...