Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clamoring for legalized sports gambling which has been heard over the past few years does not really take into account the personal side of the issue. The pressures already placed upon athletes, be they professional or collegiate, simply to win are tremendous. Add in the spread and they are outrageous...
...daughter Chris that he would be home in 30 minutes. He never got there. Several hours later, Bramlet phoned an official at the Dunes Hotel casino and asked that a $10,000 "personal" payment be made to a gambler. It wasn't, and Bramlet has not been heard from since...
...disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said he had heard that between 1,000 and 1,500 Lango and Acholi soldiers had been killed in recent skirmishes at army barracks in the towns of Mubende and Mbarara. Except for the President's own tiny Kakwa tribe, said another, "I don't think there is a family in Uganda...
...book if I'd heard all those silly sexual parts first," says Kathy O'Connell, 30, wife of an accountant in Wauconda, Ill. "But after the seminar I no longer felt obligated to apologize for being a wife and mother. One night when my husband came home from work, I decided to do what my instructor suggested. Instead of unloading all my troubles on him before dinner, I shuffled him into the bedroom, brought him the mail and turned some quiet music on the tape recorder. After 15 minutes he was relaxed and happy and began to talk...
...issue of whether the press has a right to print Government-stamped "secrets" keeps bedeviling Government and journalism. It always will. High-minded, and sometimes high-flown rhetoric about the rights of the Government or of the press are heard; there also exists the public's right, and perhaps its duty, to be skeptical of both sides...