Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fairly stirring call to arms. Unfortunately, few Greeks heard it. Constantine had lacked the foresight-or the troops-to seize control of a regular radio station, and his message went out only on a weak short-wave station that was almost inaudible in Athens...
With this year's painting exhibit, no such complaint is heard. Helped by a $155,000, five-year Ford Foundation grant, the Whitney for the first time dispatched five directors and curators to 30 cities to look at work produced from Sarasota to Seattle. The result is a record number of exhibitors: 165 artists, 64 of whom are from outside the New York area, including 27 who have never shown at the Whitney...
...moderate segment of the academic community must now be heard, lest other voices be mistaken for majority sentiment," it says...
Anguilla's small reputation (most people who have heard of it know only that "small" is the adjective, and persist in referring to it as "Iguana") results mainly from a full-page ad inserted in the New York Times of Aug. 14. "Is it 'silly' that Anguilla does not want to become a nation of bus boys?" the ad asked plaintively. The Times had only a week earlier described Anguilla's declaration of independence as "touching and silly...
...stories I've heard," Fisher says, "is that when the British government was petitioned over a long time to send money for a pier for the Anguillians--they needed a dock; it's a fishing island and the longest pier was maybe 25 feet long and could only take a dinghy--Britain finally sent money to the administration on St. Kitts for such a pier. And it was built: it's called "Anguilla Pier" and it's on St. Kitts...