Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginians were astounded to discover that their guests had never heard of Robert E. Lee, hurried them to the great man's statue and briefed them on his activities in the Civil...
...three weeks, Justice had leaned over backward, while Medina had heard his orders defied, his rulings disregarded and his court criticized. Finally, Justice became mildly annoyed. Medina said to the Communists' battery of lawyers: "I can hint, I can suggest, I can be pleasant about it, but you go right on ... you just keep...
...news from northern Greece was the best that gloomy Athens had heard for a long time. It was not a military victory for the government; it was a political crisis in the camp of the enemy. The rebel radio announced that General Markos Vafiades (TIME, April 5), the wiry, hairy soldier who had long commanded the northern Communists, had been "seriously ill" for months and had been relieved of his duties...
Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms...