Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true tests of ability or learning, and that with practice, we could beat the test. We also knew that the fees were unreasonable, and it was unfair-the more erudite of us even used the term monopoly. But as mere high school students, our voices just weren't heard. It took another test-maker, ACT Inc. of Iowa City, to finally cry out against ETS's vice-like grip on educational testing...
...official summary of the session, and it discloses in detail how Nichols tried desperately to save his skin, even giving incriminating statements against McVeigh. It is not clear if Nichols will take the stand, and he has made no public comments, so the most that will ever be heard from him may be these statements made to the FBI, many of them apparently false and contradictory...
...rightfield foul line. I tried as best I could to calm the rightfielder down, telling him that we were still winning, that we wouldn't be winning without him, that we needed him to put his glove back on. I also told him, though I'm not sure he heard me, not to worry about crying because Lou Gehrig cried...
...SEEN & HEARD...
...logical and achievable--a good, sensible subject with a reasonable stopping point. But by his own account, author Alex Shoumatoff, a veteran writer about distant parts for the New Yorker, spent too much time on the project for a neat, orderly account, traveled too far, read too many books, heard too many semitruths and beguiling lies from too many plausible liars and improbable truth tellers. He also lived through about 25 years of his own life doing all this, so that the Shoumatoff who finished the book is not the same fellow who started it. (He admits to beginning...