Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among politicians, former Democratic Governor Robert Docking of Kansas was sympathetic to Lance. "He defended himself very well and deserves to be heard out. We should not be too quick to condemn people in this country." Republican Richard Aurelio, former deputy mayor of New York City, called the hearings "one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen in public affairs. The Senators have come off looking foolish. Lance's performance has been remarkable...
...Lance." He criticized Ribicoff and Percy for spreading the vague claim that Lance had been accused of new illegalities-but never revealing what they were. In a closed session of the committee, the two leaders briefed the other Senators on what they had found and, said Eagleton, he heard only rehashes of what had been in the newspapers...
...Mather House, where students last year formed an "Eggshell Alliance" to protest their having to walk to Leverett for a full breakfast, the sounds of discontent could be heard again last week...
...think Gars and Goyles, this season's Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid show, is just a mispronounciation of the title of a story you have heard somewhere before, then you are only partly wrong. Writer-Jirector Andy Borowitz says that his new musical comedy based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a "a Fred Astaire-Ginger-Rogers musical except the leading man doesn't have good posture." "America has been begging for a good family musical about a hunchback for a long time," Borowitz said jokingly. With its big brassy production numbers, Gars and Goyles will not let America...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...