Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the summer sun that bakes much of the nation these days, new voices are being heard. They speak Japanese and German and Arabic...
...second floor of the building, a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies was under way. The session, dealing with taxes, was being covered by 24 reporters. "Suddenly we heard shooting coming from outside," Journalist Luis Manuel Martinez recalled later. Martinez, a Cuban exile and a well-known antiCommunist, regularly covers the legislature for Novedades, the official newspaper of the Somoza regime. "A few minutes later, a man dressed in a uniform walked into the middle of the room carrying a submachine gun. Without warning, he fired into the ceiling and shouted: 'Everyone on the floor!' We all dived down...
...doubts, but I knew I was in deep trouble when my dorm assignment came in August. The name did not exactly ring a bell, and when my brother told me that he had never even heard of the place, I began to wonder. 8 Prescott St? I mean, it didn't even have a name. And when I finally arrived, after an interminable summer during which relatives and friends told me over and over how lucky I was and how much I'd love it, I knew why. 8 Prescott Street didn't deserve a name. It stands...
...from Kansas City, or for that metter, anyplace but an East Coast private school, odds are you've never even heard of squash. Canadian junior Mike Desaulniers has definitely heard of squash--in fact, he's the number one amateur in North America--and how many pro squash players do you know...
...tone and settings of The Godfather were so authentic that many readers thought Puzo himself had underworld connections. But the novel, which never once mentions the word Mafia, was written entirely from research and anecdotes the author had heard from his Italian immigrant mother and on the streets of New York. Recalls Puzo: "After the book became famous, I was introduced to a few gentlemen related to the material. They were flattering. They refused to believe that I had never been in the rackets. They refused to believe that I had never had the confidence of a don." But Puzo...