Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have already heard more than enough about most of its other virtues, so there is nothing left to say. Except that somehow, the name of Joshua Logan has not yet got into this. As co-author with Hammerstein of the book, and as director of the entire show, musical numbers and all, Logan is surely responsible for a good number of "South Pacific's" qualities...
...Robert D. Kilmarx heard the noises and came out of his room across the hall. He told the men to get out, and they did, not knowing that Cirrotta might have been severely injured. Kilmarx spoke to Cirrotta, who was washing his face, and returned to his room to study...
...Cardiff draper, Dr. Follick was born in Wales where every schoolboy is expected to learn the spelling of such names as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. At 17, he left Wales for Australia. Perhaps Down Under he heard about the New Zealand hilltop called Taumatawhakatangihangako-auauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. He developed an English alphabet containing...
...cigar-smoking orator clad in a natty green bush jacket and gabardine trousers. "Adibasis I" he addressed them. "The most ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east central India, they roared in approval, "Jarkhand sadari [Separate Jarkhand]." A tribeswoman who works as a steel-mill laborer cried: "They are the people of the plains...
...class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...