Word: heard
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...however, he received a call from the Indianapolis Colts, who had heard about his time at Harvard, his injury, and wanted to interview him for a job in their player personnel department...
...American classmate from her term abroad began furiously texting and calling their Samoan acquaintances, trying to find out “who was safe, who we’d heard from, who we hadn’t heard from...
Although Leonard said she now knows that at least one of her Samoan friends is safe, she still has not heard from her host family, even as the death toll has mounted to 119—a number that could rise even higher as the search for bodies continues...
...easy to imagine that a little boy growing up in Paktia province might have heard heroic tales of the Battle of Jaji and its hero, bin Laden. When Zazi was about 7 years old, his father moved the family across the border into Pakistan, near Peshawar, another zone of bin Laden influence and a hotbed of jihadist activity...
...Except by then, Zazi wasn't. It's unclear exactly when the authorities first listened in on Zazi's phone calls, but sometime around late August, according to an intelligence official briefed on the case, he was heard talking "about chemical mixtures and other things." At that point, the FBI shifted into high gear. Agents quickly picked up the trail and discovered, according to court documents and other sources, that Zazi and at least three associates were shopping for chemicals at beauty-supply stores in the Denver area using stolen credit cards. At the Beauty Supply Warehouse on East Sixth...