Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curled up in a fake leather chair for some time. Gradually I became accustomed to what little activity there was on the ward. The dominant sound was the TV. Below the TV there could be heard occasional snoring and shifting and shufling. And once in a while a far-away telephone ring from the nurses' office. That...
Finally I was able to look up: half way down the hall I saw a big man with an immense stomach taking off the top of a floor-stand ashtray. Looking for butts. He did that about every half hour for two days, and then disappeared. I heard that had been sent to some sort of a nursing home...
...NEXT MORNING at about 5:30 or 6:00 a bell sounded from the depths of Boston State Hospital which, I found out, meant get ready for breakfast. Then I heard a huge relay click and all the lights came on. The cheery voice of Mrs. Snowden called out, "O.K., get up, get up right away. Come...
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Henry Leen heard three hours of testimony about the proposed Cambridge rent control referendum yesterday but made no decision about whether to place rent control on the November 4 election ballot...
...heard rumors a couple weeks ago that they might do away with this job, but we haven't heard anything official yet. It really doesn't make that much difference to me because I'm 64 and have to retire next year anyway...