Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred peoples came to a "facts forum" on Vietnam Thursday and heard denuciations of several aspects of U.S. policy in Asia, including a call for students to go to jail rather than serve a government of "Fascist butchers...
Frustrating Drought. Marathon's rise to worldly wealth and power has been so recent that few outside the Midwest have ever heard of the company. It owns 9,000 wells and has interests in 11,000 others around the globe, spends a large part of its capital expansion and exploration budget-which averages $100 million annually-looking for more. It owns refineries in Spain and Germany, has a 7% stake in the Trans-Alpine pipeline. Its big red "M" flies over 3,800 gas stations in six states and nearly 700 more in Europe. Last year all these operations...
...Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his young publishing firm needed authors, and during the next four years he published three Gibran books; all sold dismally. The Prophet, brought out in 1923, did slightly better...
...students, of course, thought the sentences much too severe. At week's end, nearly 600 agitators gathered on the campus and then marched through Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
...Schumann, which opened the program, has difficult passages for rhythmic ensemble and intonetion. But the quartet maintained excellent balance and infused the work with a vital spirit that is rarely heard. Even the third movement, which has some rather un-string quartetish passages, worked well in their hands...