Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five men at a time-so that there will never be too many men in the same place in the event of a direct hit. No one ventures above ground without his flak jacket and helmet, although most Marines carry their helmets and go bareheaded in order to hear incoming shells better. The first warning is the boom of the gun across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly by the final sharp bang of its explosion on impact. The whole process takes about...
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear...
...sense a quality of defiant honesty in the Beatles and admire their freedom and open-mindedness; they see them as peers who are in a position to try anything, and who can be relied on to tell it to them straight-and to tell them what they want to hear. As for the parents who are targets of the Beatles' satirical gibes, they seem to be able to take a large number of direct hits and still come up smiling. Says Chicago Public Relations Man Walter Robinson, 39, father of three boys: "The Beatles are explorers, trusty advance scouts...
...prepare). The jolting indictment of the Baltimore force prompted the resignations of the commissioner and his chief inspector. In New York, a twelve-man board is considering the I.A.C.P. recommendations and is expected to implement many. In fact, the nation's police forces are so anxious to hear what is wrong with them that there are currently 22 that have paid in advance for studies. One of the 22 that is due next week is a report on the Dallas department. "Law enforcement used to be pretty insular," says Los Angeles Chief
...writing is well documented in this painstaking biography. British Scholar Winifred Gerin has already written biographies of Anne Brontë and ne'er-do-well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist...