Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chafetz's proposal is the most sensible thing I've heard in a long time. Drinking as part of the school curriculum may or may not prevent alcoholism, but it will give students a chance to learn physical and emotional reactions to liquor...
...police force's involvement in the kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
...collaboration with the Catholics. But for a lonely little bust of Lenin on the podium and the presence of Moscow's cadaverous Ideologue Mikhail Suslov (who brought it), not a single picture, statue or reference to Russia's Communist heroes, past or present, could be seen or heard. Instead, what hook-nosed Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 65, was promoting was something that he styled "the Italian road to socialism...
...less a connoisseur than Jack ("Legs") Diamond tagged him as the toughest. And Legs spoke from experience. One night the famous hoodlum declared that he was going to get Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
...many subjects. It is not unreasonable to ask that the nation have an opportunity to reexamine some decisions every two years, and Congressional elections are the closest thing we have to a national referendum. This year, for example, the people will have some-albeit limited-opportunity to make themselves heard on the Vietnam war through Congressional elections. It is absurd to suggest that the floods of form letters which make up the bulk of Congressional mail adequately represent public opinion...