Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance warning, the President announced that he would fly to Hawaii for three days of talks with U.S. military commanders and leaders of South Viet Nam's government. The South Vietnamese did not even have time to draft position papers. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, asked when he first heard about it, confessed in some embarrassment: "Very recently...
Neither suggestion was accepted, however, and the Council, which had heard Curry on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday continued its Saturday session until early afternoon. Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. said then that he hoped Curry's presentation would be completed by tonight. Testimony resumes...
...Coop did nothing to hide its chagrin. "The situation isn't good and there's no point in minimizing it," Presdent Stanley F. Teele told the annual meeting of Coop members a month later. And, at the meeting, Teele heard from the Harvard Undergraduate Council one of the angriest statements ever directed at the Coop by a student organization...
...story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
...Affair. After Walter's death in 1957, the Louvre heard that the twice-widowed Mme. Walter was willing to give her collection to them, and curators turned handsprings to meet her every whim. When she suggested that the paintings looked best in warmer surroundings than a museum, the Louvre cheerfully erected a second floor inside the Orangerie to convey the intimacy of her elegant mansion...