Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curiosity," declared the Rev. Edwin B. Broderick this week, in a sermon at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. "The toying parlor pink," he said, "must show his true color, red or not red . . . There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature for their work would be allowed to continue doing so, if they applied to church authorities for special permission...
Once a year British miners throng into the medieval town of Durham (pop. 16,000) in northeastern England for what they call the "Miners' Gala" (pronounced gayler). Last week nearly half a million squeezed through the narrow streets to the race course beneath the castle. They heard Labor Party leaders defiantly answer the Tory Party's bid for votes. The Durham gala, which began in 1861 with a protest march against dangerous conditions in the pits, is always a living symbol of the bitter class consciousness of British labor. This year-was no exception...
Gestapo. Many Germans, he realized even then, shared passively in Nazi guilt by shutting their eyes to evil or by keeping silent about it. After the war, as he heard of the new wave of totalitarian terror sweeping the Soviet zone, he decided that "silence is suicide." For months he begged refugees from Soviet-zone concentration camps to stand up and tell their story. Last winter he found one man and one woman who were willing to take the risk. With them, he staged a deeply impressive public meeting. Out of it emerged his organization, the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (Fighters...
...prepared address, Mann stoutly defended his own record:' "It is claimed . . . that I watched the tragedy of my people from far away in comfortable circumstances. No, no, I participated in it. Those who heard my radio appeals to my homeland know that every hot word of my fury was directed only against the seducers in power in Germany and their crimes. These appeals ... did give consolation and strength to many...
...youth on his father's plantation, Manuel Serrano was fascinated by all the stories and legends he heard about ixbut. There was the tall tale of a 60-year-old woman who had not borne a child for 18 years; when her daughter died in childbirth, she took ixbut and had no trouble nursing her grandchild. There was the even taller tale of an Indian father who took ixbut and nursed his motherless infant himself...