Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several neighborhood small fry who witnessed the early battering game, said that she told her mother, "They are beating Sylvia something awful," adding: "My mother didn't do anything because she thought Sylvia was being beaten for being bad." Mrs. Phyllis Vermillion, who lived next door and once heard the dying Sylvia scraping a shovel on the basement floor to attract aid, testified that the girl "looked like she didn't care whether she lived or died"-but said nothing about having helped...
...government to handle efficiently alone. There are dozens of areas, from housing to highways, that the states do not have the money to handle themselves, and hundreds more in which the Federal Government must take the initiative if anything is ever to be done. Though cries are still heard about the freedom-encroaching growth of government-most frequently from the extreme right wing-most Americans have come to accept the fact that big problems require big government. What they are apt to resent is the Federal Government's playing too pervasive and domineering a role in decisions that...
...Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest of reincarnations, rich in his person in past accumulated virtue. Even in remote parts where spirit-worshiping peasants may never have heard of Thailand, they are likely to know-and revere-the King...
...among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote in Yiddish for New York's Jewish Daily Forward. In translation they are brisk, bright and engagingly exotic. Even readers who have never heard a shofar will recognize the book as a letter from home...
Because of this tradition of discrimination, Hudgins says, a Negro who hesitates to approach a white bank feels that his financial problems will be heard with a more sympathetic car at Freedom National Bank. He cities the bank's attractions: its staff is 98 per cent Negro; the bank is located in the heart of Harlem, on 125th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues; its trademark is made up of an F for Freedom and an equals sign. And 30 per cent of the bank's $5 million in loans goes for first mortgages, a particularly difficult kind of loan...