Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ever heard of a guy named Bob Hall? If you follow Harvard football, you'll see plenty of him this afternoon in Providence. He's the Brown quarterback, another good Ivy League back, but a little different from the rest. He's the best...
...hostile crowd gathered, and the two boys got into a scuffle with the cops. Mrs. Frye jumped on one officer's back, was dragged off, then leaped on another patrolman. Finally, all three Fryes were taken to jail. Soon every Negro slum dweller in Watts heard rumors that the family had been brutally manhandled...
...eight women and four men picked to hear the case in U.S. District Court to swear that they 1) did not regard the Communist Party as "subversive" or a threat to themselves or their families; 2) felt no "hostility" toward the party; 3) had "not read, seen or heard anything derogatory about the party," and 4) would not doubt the truthfulness of any officer of the party or the party itself...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...
...named Alvarez, arrived at the scene of the crime. Clueless after a search of several hours, he turned to leave the hut-and saw on the door, dramatized by a splash of sunlight, the blood-brown print of a human thumb. Alvarez promptly recalled some reports he had heard of a new method of identification based on fingerprints, and within an hour, assisted only by an ink pad and a magnifying glass, he had triumphantly identified the killer of the children: their mother...