Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mansion in Albany in 1975, Carey kept the house in Park Slope in the family. Last week thieves broke in and made off with $4,000 worth of jewelry, silverware, cameras and electronic calculators. Said the Governor's daughter, Susan Dempsey: "We asked our neighbors if anyone saw or heard anything, but no one was around...
...suggested that human beings had evolved from some lower form of life. By implying that man was related to apes and monkeys, the great naturalist incurred the derision ?and wrath?of millions round the world. "Descended from apes!'' exclaimed the wife of the Bishop of Worcester when she heard the news in 1860. "Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known...
...care in picking it. There is a tendency to act out, first in fantasy, then in reality, the sort of life suggested by one's handle. In effect, a CB rig offers a form of power to the powerless of our society, a way for them to make themselves heard in a world that does not pay them much heed. This is what has become of the Middle Americans who exercised such a powerful, if brief, hold on journalistic and political imaginations back in the Nixon era. They are no longer fomenting a counterrevolution; they are out there...
...Indianapolis Motor Speedway into a multimillion-dollar attraction; of a ruptured artery; in Indianapolis. In 1945 Hulman bought the speedway-which had been closed during the war years-from Eddie Rickenbacker for $750,000. He revived the "500" and refashioned a folk festival where thousands gathered every year and heard him say, "Gentlemen, start your engines...
...Tommy liked to tell stories about the lowest kind of human behavior." The storyteller, Thomas Spellacy, is a 72-year-old retired Los Angeles cop who has either witnessed or heard them...