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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Tran Van Huong, who had appointed Tri, one of his former pupils in Huong's schoolmaster days, cried when he heard the news. President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker all attended the funeral, and Thieu honored Tri posthumously with the National Order, second class. Meanwhile the dead man's friends bitterly suggested a motive for someone more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Price of Honesty | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with his speech. Political leaders of both parties quickly declared Powell to be irresponsible and the press denounced him. Unfazed, Powell asserted: "I've been heard, heard as no man in this country has been heard in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Phenomenon of Powellism | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Danger: Diabolik. So you've never heard of Danger: Diabolik, or for that matter anything else by Mario Bava, Italy's greatest hack (Black Friday, Planet of the Vampires, Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense with great style, color, and originality. Don't attempt to inject meaning into this tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ten Best Films of 1968 | 1/14/1969 | See Source »

...criminal charges filed by Miss Gill will be heard in court on January...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Tenants Claim Harvard Ignored Building Code | 1/14/1969 | See Source »

...journalistic writing. Its emphasis on literature, music and philosophy gives it an aura of intellectualism. It has suffered from stringent press laws, but has offset its inability to have pungent political articles by improving its nonpolitical pieces and pictures. It exercises considerable courage and skill in making its voice heard, sometimes with sly critical undertones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The World's Elite | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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