Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tonight at 7:30, Dartmouth Coach Brian Mason will send the Big Green onto the Thompson Arena ice in Hanover, N.H to face the Crimson challenge (WHRB, 95.3 FM). Mason's heard all about the Harvard attack. He knows about the "keep it close and hope for the best" method. But Mason's not sure that's going to be enough...
...inclined towards Absolut measures, so I went for the grand getaway. Sixty cents and a change at the Green Line and there I was at North Station, poring through train schedules. It was just beginning to dawn on me that Commuter Rail doesn't cross any borders, when I heard a conductress shouting "North line...boarding Track Four!" Instinct got the better...
...come home. The true believers there, and later that day in San Diego, wept and shouted and chanted, "We love you!" White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein, a veteran of years of campaign hoopla, was stunned as the sound filled the hall. "I've never heard anything like it," remembered Duberstein. And then Reagan invoked the memories of his dead parents: "And I just hope that Nelle and Jack are looking down on us right now and nodding their heads and saying their kid did them proud...
Peggy Noonan, a former White House speechwriter and Reagan favorite, was driving with her mother from a supermarket in suburban Virginia when she heard a radio sound bite of Bush's "I'm one of you" quote. She felt her stomach sink. She called Fuller, who told her to be on Air Force Two the next afternoon for Bush's return to New Hampshire. Sitting next to Bush on the plane, she tried to make sense of what he was trying to say about himself. His hands fluttered near his chest, as if seeking his heart, and he said softly...
...diction standards will not relax. For 56 years the carefully pronounced speech heard on the World Service has been the ultimate model for listeners learning English as a second language. The familiar opener for Radio Newsreel -- a brassy rendition of Imperial Echoes, with its resonance of a colonial past -- is gone and may not be missed. But news programs will still be introduced with a revered sound: the bouncy tune of the Irish song Lilliburlero and the muffled chimes...