Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influencing the policies of these countries. If a Socialist Foreign Secretary is to have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this line only because he wanted to be Foreign Secretary. "Hear, hear," a voice cried. Said Nye plaintively: "That is a pretty bitter thing to say about me. I would never do anything I did not believe...
...REFLECTING UPON YOUR COVERAGE OF THE FAUBUS AFFAIR [SEPT. 23], I HEAR ONLY THE MOCKING LAUGH OF HISTORY - AT THOSE OF MY FELLOW SOUTHERNERS WHO WOULD HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF SOCIAL GROWTH WITH THE MINNOW SEINE OF TRUTHLESS REASON...
Some 25 managed to board the one lifeboat that was left intact; ten more climbed into a damaged one. Several times during the long night that followed, rescue vessels passed close by, unable to hear the survivors' frantic calls for help, which were swallowed in the roars of the still raging sea and wind. In the damaged lifeboat, five men died of exhaustion and exposure during the next 54 hours. By the third morning the remaining five, living armpit-deep in water, were almost too weak to move. That afternoon, as if by magic, the great steel...
...slogan: 'WEEP for joy.' I can call myself the WEEP veep; we'll have a traveling car called the WEEP jeep; and, my God, think of what we can say when we sign off: 'And now, for the next twelve hours you won't hear a peep out of WEEP...
...until his recent move to Puerto Rico, made his home, calls at the gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles down in dimness and the shapely silence of a thousand-year-old church to hear the cellist play Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello...