Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Immediately, Feeney's black-garbed followers appeared on the scene, but the culprits had vanished. The police were summoned, and upon their arrival were addressed by Feeney: "They are haters of the blessed Virgin, desecrators of the Mother of God. Over there in Adams House we hear all sorts of foul language and we never do anything. But this is too much. If there isn't fast action on this, it will...
...Thomas getting into a plane, Thomas riding in a plane, Thomas getting out of a plane. They will see Ambassador Thomas, all done up in high hat and frock coat, presenting his credentials to the King and making a little speech. And during a visit to Kashmir they will hear-if by that time they have not been deafened by the music of Dimitri Tiomkin-a singing commercial for Lowell Thomas' daily newscast...
Mathieu was too engrossed to hear. He banged the can vas with a towel soaked in yellow paint, kneaded flake-white pigment into snowballs, and pitched them at the dripping oil, slapped on more paint with rapier-quick strokes, seized handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes...
...began when the New York Herald Tribune's fun-loving, Paris-based Columnist Art Buchwald put an ad into the famed agony column of London's Times: "Would like to hear from people who dislike Americans and their reasons why. Please write Box R. 543." The ad produced not only 209 replies from as far away as California and Iraq and two columns for Buchwald,* but a rash of new ads putting Anglo-American relations to the test on both sides of the Atlantic...
Even before Buchwald could sum up, another ad popped up in the Times: "Do you dislike the British? Advertiser would be grateful to hear reasons . . ." Then another: "Would like to hear from anyone who likes Americans and why ..." The first of the ads was placed by BBC TV's topical show Tonight, whose spokesman concluded: "Americans have a commendable liking for the British, or you are more reticent than we British, despite a widespread belief to the contrary." The second ad brought 250 friendly replies to the American Weekend, a weekly published in Frankfurt...