Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month the city heard that the well might soon run dry. The Air Force had decided that the Pacific Northwest might be vulnerable to bombing in event of war with Russia, and had specified that the new B-47s must be built at Boeing's branch plant in Wichita, Kans...
...very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer to his perch, Joseph dumped the last of his sand ballast and busied himself cutting up his trail rope to throw that out piece by piece. Soon after he heard the cries of sea gulls and looked down to see the lights of beachside restaurants and hotels. A woman was walking down a long, straight road. "Madame," called Joseph politely, "s'il vous plait, l'Angleterre ici?" The Englishwoman looked up. "Oui, monsieur," she answered and continued steadily...
Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...
Negligible Bit. The hardest wallops came in the Sunday Times from a critic Britons have heard for 45 years. Gruff old (80) Ernest Newman first wanted to know "What is a festival's work?" Is its virtue, he asked, "a quality inherent in it" or does its virtue come "merely from the fact that on a particular day [a piece] is performed some hundreds of miles from where we live...
...Bing could hardly deny the charges. But neither did he see any reason to plead guilty. Said he with a sigh: "You don't come to Edinburgh to hear Brahms's Second Symphony. If you're the type who goes to a festival, you've heard it. But you do come to hear the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham, or the Berlin, or the Vienna Philharmonic, or the Concertgebouw. It seems to me that what is played here is less important than who plays it. Whatever he thinks of it, the festival-goer certainly gets a good...