Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio, when a jury finds a man guilty of a capital crime, the death penalty is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy. The first jury that heard Cecil Yankey's trial for the crowbar murder of 71-year-old Leroy Woodland in 1947 couldn't reach a verdict. Yankey agreed to plead guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a one-judge court...
Every now & then the logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...minutes we heard an enormous splashing, and I looked behind to see another small boat, obviously leaking badly, following us with my faithful escort. One was rowing the boat while the two others bailed steadily. They kept just far enough away to allow me casting distance, sitting over their ankles in water...
...audience of about 500 heard MacLeish attack the idea "poets never make anything happen." Poetry, he said, is a means that shows an individual himself. The earth today is troubled, MacLeish commented, by the "plight of the individual in an institutionalized world...
...ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, I've always heard. That's why I wouldn't ordinarily have gone to the Hygiene Building when I woke up one morning shaking with fever. But I knew I was too sick to study for my hour exam the next day, so I thought I'd better...