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Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard hicks, however, cannot turn to other stations to hear their favorite ditties, for, as Elton Britt said, "thare jist aint eny." Hillbilly music is not sufficiently popular in the Boston community to warrent commercial radio stations playing it. Yet at Harvard it has a large and devoted audience, whose interests should be recognized by the only station which operates exclusively for Harvard students--WHRB...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillbilly Music | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...George Meany and his executive council held firm. After 90 minutes of discussion with Hoffa and his general executive board, the council huddled in executive session for an equal period of time. At length, Jimmy Hoffa, cooling his heels in an outer office, was called in to hear the verdict: the Teamsters were suspended by a 25 to 4 vote (the four: representatives of the Teamsters, the scandal-tinged Bakery Workers, the powerful Carpenters, the Letter Carriers). Under George Meany's tough hand, a powerful majority had shown that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. would risk its own future to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Boot for Jimmy | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...ears of a deaf father, mother and brother. It unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl's arrival at a hospital psychiatric ward, developing as the staff ferreted out the causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with an attempt to make her hear again through the ingenious use of a lie detector and the shock of an emotional confrontation. Under Sidney (Twelve Angry Men) Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign language-taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...deaf, dumb and blind. Five years later, an American woman (Joan Crawford) with plenty of money and nothing to do-she has recently walked out on her unfaithful husband (Rossano Brazzi) -takes the child (Heather Sears) on maternal impulse, and with the help of some therapists teaches her to hear, speak and see with her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Syria's own persecution complex has been heightened in intensity by continuing American statements on the immorality of neutralism. The Syrians hear our diplomats say that if a country is not with us, it is against us, and the Syrians believe what they hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moral Melodrama | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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