Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April the representatives of 18 nations met to hear what the U.S. thinks can be done about...
...many innovations they have been called upon to set on their machines) is their trickiest job. The perforators were not designed to set type around illustrations, and it takes ingenuity, experience and patience to make up for this lack. Consequently, when this letter is not in on time, I hear about it in no uncertain terms. This time, however, I hope they won't mind its being a little late...
...travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist might never suspect that those musical words mean, 'Go away, foreigners...
Like the Congressional Record, Hansard can be fascinating reading-or unbearably dull-depending on who says what. Its reporters either euphemize or ignore profanity (Hansard tactfully fails to hear Ernie Bevin when he says, as he often does, in debate, "By God"). They will take down cries of "Hear! Hear!" but do not record laughter, cheers or jeers unless the context of speeches requires it. Unlike the Record, it is uncluttered with Members' undelivered speeches. The editors will let an M.P. replace only such Parliamentary divots as split infinitives and wrong dates...
...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...