Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh Trail-was discovered by the Laotian air force, whose commander, Brigadier General Thao Ma, had been keeping a close eye on Cambodia since last September. About that time, Ma received reports of activity along the Se Kong River, a tributary of the Mekong. Near its banks could be heard the sound of blasting and rumble of heavy equipment in a region virtually empty of inhabitants. By early April, Ma's aviators could follow the trail for 60 miles from Cambodia to where it entered South Viet Nam. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Neff flew over the Sihanouk Trail...
Like any aspiring singer, Mrs. Elva Miller has had to struggle to be heard. In her case, though, the struggle has been going on for most of her 58 years. When she was a child, people were forever telling her to knock off the singing and please go skip rope or something. But she persevered, joined the high school glee club and the church choir, later studied voice for seven years at Pomona College. Still, whenever she tuned up, people tended to drift out of earshot, and friends politely suggested that maybe please she should take up knitting or something...
...Elva. She recently recorded an album of pop songs-and look who's laughing now? Everybody who has heard Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits. In the kooky world of pop music, where the bizarre is so commonplace, Hits has become one of the hottest and certainly one of the most hilarious albums ever to crash the record market...
...Museum. The striptease was necessary, for the old lady is being upstaged by the competition. Once called the Thunderer because its authoritative voice of Empire was heard around the world and heeded, today the Times has become more flexible in its politics, but is influential only with select members of the British Establishment and upper classes. While its own circulation has slipped 5,624 to 254,377 in the past five years, it has watched its chief competitors in the "quality" press-the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian-gradually win more readers. As Times Editor Sir William Haley...
...silent House of Commons, which had expected harsh measures, but instead found them merely bewildering. Commented the London Times: "There was even an air of disappointment, as though the Commons were flagellants who had just had their whips confiscated by a benevolent abbot." Next day the critics were heard from. Businessmen predicted that the payroll tax would drive up the cost of living. Union leaders predicted that the bonus to manufacturers would increase the already serious problem of labor hoarding. The influential Economist simply dubbed the budget "fatheaded...