Word: heards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
...crowd formed in Lamont Library's Forum Room, where the speech was originally scheduled to be held, then rushed to Emerson D, where the young and nimble finaly heard MacLeish's address...
...joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will tell a little bit more of the joke until, by season's end. the whole story (cleaned up if necessary) may actually be heard on the air. Whether the joke turns out to be good or not, the prospect is misty...
...popular U.S. magazine, the young Colombian spied an ad that roused his dreams. The American correspondence school promised a radio and electronics course, equipment to study with. To raise tuition, the boy's father sold the family house. Off went his precious pesos-and the school was never heard from. In Bogotá, the U.S. consul nodded wearily as the victims denounced the "wicked and harmful" deception...
...heard someone on the street shouting...