Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd that heard Marley was varied: Harvard students, black and white high school kids, and some older folk who ranged from burnt out dead-heads to people in African garb. The crowd was controlled not by Harvard, Boston and MBC police, although there were some present. It was controlled by the "People's Security". They were dressed in black pants and red shirts with a fist on the back. Some wore berets or military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing...
...sent another sprawling to the ground to avoid a beaning. Bad enough, but then Home Plate Umpire Rich Garcia claimed that the pitcher had nicked the third hitter on the hand. In a flash of anger, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles came bellowing out of the dugout. "I heard wood...
...came was a single spring training on the big league roster before being sent down again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back for it, and all of a sudden, I heard Enos Slaughter call me off the ball. I got out of the way and let him catch it. It was thrill enough just to be called off by a guy like that...
...local television reporter. With mike in hand, she dutifully asked the question, and Kennedy coolly responded with the answer. Yes, he had every expectation that President Carter would be renominated, he said, and yes, he fully intended to support him. The reporter was disappointed. "I've heard that answer before," she groused off-camera. "Oh, uh, that's all right," smiled Kennedy, "I, uh, T've heard the question before...
What the switchboard operators heard was definitely not mellow-speak. Not laid back either. It was sheer, white-hot anger. The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and half a dozen other papers had yanked Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer-prizewinning comic strip Doonesbury, and thousands of irate devotees wanted to know...