Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent years Father Divine had suffered from arteriosclerosis, and once-frequent pronouncements were seldom heard. But then, as one said: "Father has said everything there is to say about everything." He had, indeed. He even defined the Divinity: "God 'is repersonified and rematerialized. He rematerialates and he is rematerializatable. He repersonificates and he repersonifitizes...
...first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines...
...seconds; each frame consisted of 400 vertical lines, compared with the 525 horizontal lines of ordinary TV images. The pictures were transmitted by radio from the ship to Long Island, thence by telephone lines to Houston, where the TV networks were waiting with their receiving equipment. The beeping heard by the TV audience was the sound of the Videx signals...
...begun production of its 1966 models. If the walkout lasts, it could cripple American Motors' 1966-model introduction in October and cause a further decline in auto sales, which so far this year are nearly 11% below 1964's level. When officials at U.A.W. headquarters in Detroit heard a report-later proved erroneous-that the demonstrators had displayed a sign reading "We're going to bury the company," they hastily issued a disclaimer: "The U.A.W. has absolutely no intention of burying American Motors. If they're burying American Motors, they're burying their own jobs...
...there was a Macedonian front, let alone that it mattered. And, like the Kaiser, historians have largely ignored the mixed army of British, French, Serbs, Greeks and Italians that broke through the Macedonian mountains, forced Bulgaria's surrender, and was sweeping northward toward the Danube as the Kaiser heard the fateful words. No Paris street names recall Macedonian victories, no heroes' welcome awaited the returning veterans. Vainly did the Times of London plead that "justice be done to those men who have had the dust and toil, without the laurel of victory." In this masterful and highly readable...