Word: heard
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Other immigrants came prepared for such adversity. William Mills of Texas, who had heard Brazil was full of wild animals, brought his four hunting dogs on the boat to Rio. "Granddad was smart to do so," pipes up Rancher Sydney Mills, 70, wearing a straw sombrero, braided string tie and cowboy boots. "The dogs would often chase and tree pumas that raided the backyard chicken coop, and Granddad would down them with his shotgun. He killed over a dozen...
Perhaps it was inevitable that the 1988 crop of presidential candidates, flicking around the country, answering or ducking questions they had heard before, should become so practiced and unreal. Watching them perform for two hours, a viewer could not say he now knew them better. He had only caught their...
...concert" in the murder, but clearly her own life buckled under regular punches. She wore dark glasses, and would attribute her recomposed face to a mugging or a fall in the kitchen. Over the years, colleagues and friends chose to believe the mugging and accident stories. Neighbors who heard the screams firsthand placed dozens of telephone calls to the police and to city authorities, who investigated but could prove no harm. The authorities did not hear the screams. After her beatings, the child lay brain dead, and the couple was in custody. Now no one in that building hears...
...help. Along the many lines of choice, excuses and mistakes are possible, even reasonable. One is left with oneself and the screams, like two opponents. The Kitty Genovese case of 1964 keeps coming back, in which a young woman in Queens screamed for help, and everybody heard, and nobody helped. What were we to do? Edvard Munch's famous painting of The Cry keeps coming back, equally scary and bewildering. What...
...Shortly after sunrise last Saturday, Tunisians flipping on their radios heard startling news. The regime of Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia since the country gained its independence from France in 1956 and President-for-Life since 1975, had come to an abrupt end. After carrying out a bloodless takeover in the predawn hours, Prime Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali took to the airwaves at 6:30 to declare that Bourguiba, 84, had been ousted. Citing a constitutional provision allowing the President to be removed if he is incapacitated, the Prime Minister claimed that a team of seven doctors...