Word: heard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent years the Times has successfully revamped its entire news coverage, as if its editors had heard a message beyond the grave from its last formidable rival, the New York Herald Tribune, which went down to defeat sloganizing, "Who says a good newspaper has to be dull?" Instead of being a paper where specialists write for specialists, the Times now goes after the general reader. Foreign coverage focuses, and well, on how other people live, their problems and moods, rather than on changes of ministers. Once the rest of the U.S., outside of Washington and New York City, was terra...
Exiled Soviet Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has not been heard from much since he settled last fall in Cavendish, Vt. (pop. 1,264), with his wife and children. The Nobel-prizewinning author rarely emerges from behind the wire fence protecting his secluded 50-acre estate. He did, however, request a luncheon with Vermont Governor Richard Shelling in Montpelier. Over Chateaubriand, Solzhenitsyn announced his plans to stay in Vermont-until the day comes when he can "return to a free Russia." Meanwhile he has been doing some writing in Cavendish, and plans to start a publishing house of his own, which will...
...council meeting last Wednesday heard J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, and Giles Constable, Lea Professor of Medieval History, who spoke against the proposal, after hearing the plan's proponents in previous weeks...
Ernie Banks has not been heard from much since he retired as an active player with the Chicago Cubs in 1971. The shortstop-first baseman, who hit 512 home runs in his 19 seasons with the team, has worked as a coach at Wrigley Field and as a roving instructor for the Cubs' farm system. But he never lost the sunny disposition that made him one of the best-loved players in baseball. "It's a beautiful day for a ball game," he would often say. "Let's play two." If a doubleheader was scheduled, he would...
Pips can be heard crooning on the sound track. These interludes completely halt the action, but in view of what the action is, they are something of a relief. Christophjer Porterfield