Word: heards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leopold's and Liliane's)-drove through the cheering streets to the five-century-old St. Gu dule Church. There a shaky but beautiful bride, alternating between stifled giggles and sobs, and a grim, nervous but handsome groom in a resplendent new uniform of a naval commander, heard themselves for the second time pronounced man and wife. "Italy," said the gallant old (85) Cardinal van Roey to the new Princess of Liege, "sends you to Belgium as a ray of its beautiful sun and a reflection of its ardent soul." And outside, the people roared: "Paola! Paola! Paola...
...recognizes Communists as his enemies at home and Red China as his enemy abroad; in typical Red "cartographic aggression," Chinese maps lay claim to large chunks of Nepal. Not long ago, Koirala declared that "the Tibetan tragedy was an Asian parallel to the Hungarian annihilation." Nehru has not been heard to say as much about either Tibet or Hungary...
...Have you ever heard of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe?" the judge asked each of them. Puzzled, each replied, "No, sir." Advised Baptist Walker: "The Supreme Ruler of the Universe is God. He is the one to whom you should direct your appeal for comfort and advice. I commend him to you as one who can be a great benefactor to each of you if you call on him humbly and prayerfully...
...wage of $200 for experienced newsmen, and listened to a barrage of speeches by outside labor leaders, including one by Francis G. Barrett, New York local president of the International Typographical Union, urging one big union for all newspaper employees-editorial, mechanical, printing, etc. But hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft, a function in which the American Newspaper Guild, its constitution notwithstanding, has in a quarter-century betrayed no sustaining interest...
...Swallow, which sinks slowly until it reaches a level where the sea water, compressed by the weight of water above it, has the same density as the buoy. There, the Swallow buoy hangs and drifts with the deep-down water, broadcasting strong pings of ultrasound that can be heard by listening ships on the surface. Dumped into the Gulf Stream, the Swallow buoys proved that Stommel's theory was exactly right. About 8,000 feet under the famed stream is a Counter Gulf Stream carrying cold water southward at ⅓ of a knot...