Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman, in an offhand phrase that was his own, not his speechwriters', had called the new era the Fair Deal. The young bloods of the 81st Congress had not come to Washington, cheering and defiant, to start a revolution. They had come to consolidate one. As the Democrats heard it, what the people really said last November was that they wanted not new highways but a widening of the roads that Franklin Roosevelt had built...
...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
...once started, the question now was: "Where did Hubert Humphrey go from here? He had made a smashing success in the minor leagues. How would he do in the majors? He well knew that freshmen Senators are to be seen and not heard, and for the present at least, he was going to play that...
...silence was broken by a brass-lunged blast from Colonel Frank L. Howley, hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector. On New Year's Day, two or three U.S. officials telephoned their Russian opposite numbers to wish them a prosperous New Year. When he heard of this incident last week, Howley's quick-triggered temper exploded...
...true that even the Duchess of Valencia's fellow monarchists, who mostly preferred intrigue to demonstrations, found the duchess a little raucous. "The duchess is too temperamental," said one of the quieter kingmakers. When all sides of her case had been heard, the judges had the Madrid court cleared of all but themselves and the prisoner before passing sentence. Then they gave her a year, of which she has only three months to serve...