Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galbraith had written an article syndicated for the major U.S. newspapers during the India-Pakistan crisis, he would have had a huge and attentive audience. To be able to use these people, newspapers could hold a special space reserved for experts in a number of different fields, rarely heard from because they write for professional or academic consumption only...
...Manager Homer Kelley saw three youths fall wounded outside, was helping to haul them inside when Whitman zeroed in on the shop. Fragments from two bullets tore into Kelley's leg. Windows shattered. Bullets tore huge gashes in the carpeting inside. North of the tower, Associated Press Reporter Robert Heard, 36, was hit in the shoulder while he was running full tilt. "What a shot!" he marveled through his pain...
...made their way separately to the tower building through subterranean passages or by zigzagging from building to building, decided to storm the observation deck. Three were Austin patrolmen who had never been in a gunfight: Houston McCoy, Jerry Day and Ramiro Martinez, who was off duty when he heard of the sniper, got into uniform and rushed to the campus. The fourth was Civilian Allen Crum, 40, a retired Air Force tailgunner, who had "never fired a shot" in combat...
Warnings to stay away and pleas for blood peppered Spelce's running account. Photographer-Reporter John Thawley abandoned his camera and raced out to help rescue wounded victims while bullets spattered around him. He was not hit. (The only newsman who was: A.P.'s Robert Heard, shot in the left shoulder.) Meanwhile the story was prompting calls to KTBC from as far away as Canada requesting brief radio reports. With incredible patience, station staffers provided 250 different such "line feeds." It never hindered their own coverage. Police identified the dead Whitman at 1:24; a KTBC reporter...
...Cottingham came to class at the urging of her husband, Wayne, 70, who retired as an Associated Press editor in Manhattan to study the stock market under the university's economists. Ernest Jones, 66, a bearded Northwestern lumberjack who frittered away a $6,000 bankroll before he heard about the Kentucky program, is studying German and recreational leadership. He figures that younger students learn faster, but argues that "we can be more persistent" and says yearningly: "I'd sure like to go to Oxford...