Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specially-called news briefing yesterday, President Johnson denied the report. He had heard, he said, that "some kid" at the State Department had announced the chance in ambassadors. "I guess in the good old days that's how they named ambassadors but those days are gone and forgotten...
...last week I heard something awful. Walking down Brattle St. I heard two undergraduates talking. One of them said to the other: "There weren't any good old days...
...been dull, just that it couldn't have been special. I realized, as I stood there, how often I've noticed this attitude of late. The Advocate has just brought out an anthology, and that story we all got so excited about in Freshman year is in it. I heard people talking at a party: "Not awkward," the girl said, "but how could we have been so....taken with the thing. It seemed so magical...
Mental Discipline. He was shy, and sometimes spoke so softly that he could scarcely be heard, but when he had made a decision his will never wavered...
Pomp & Pole-Axes. Interrogation and trial were cruel and cursory. The accused was haled before a bishop for a hearing at which little was heard, as a rule, but the bellowing of the bishop. Even so, the accused sometimes gave as good as he got. Cardinal Wolsey: "What, Mr. Doctor, do you think it more necessary that I should have golden shoes and golden cushions because I represent the king's person, or to sell all these things and give it to the poor, which will piss it against the wall?" Dr. Robert Barnes: "Give it to the poor...