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Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowhere, a character remarks: "Did they ever prove that Cassius Rife killed Cora's father?" One of the cast marries a Japanese man. He is apparently the only Japanese in town. No explanation is given of how he got there. When World War II breaks out, we hear that his wife bashes a Fed over the head with an umbrella when they come to take him away to an internment camp. He reappears later in the book, casually, and again no explanation is given...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Half Dozen of the Other | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...would hear him out, Smith patiently insisted that his internal settlement fulfills the conditions of an agreement he made with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976. In brief, Smith said, he agreed to majority rule for the breakaway British colony within two years; in return, the U.S. and Britain would recognize the legitimacy of his government and end the United Nations sanctions that have plagued Rhodesia's economy since 1966. "Our case is watertight," said Smith. "We cannot understand what is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled the great man's songs in local bars. Interpreters translated learned musical discourse in three languages (Czech, German and Russian). "If the old man ever scribbled graffiti on walls, we will probably hear that too," said one visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Bayreuth at Brno | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...that he is already taking steps to improve faculty input into his administration. Margaret Drolett, associate professor of Biostatics, said last Monday, "The dean is making a greater effort to communicate with the faculty. He is holding weekly luncheons and talking to faculty members individually in his office to hear their opinions. I think he's making progress...

Author: By David A. De milo, | Title: An Unhealthy Situation | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...Tommy can only respond to simple requests. He'll always tell you what he perceives you'll want to hear. He always wants to please. Authority is something he gives in to--like a child," said Hines' lawyer, Henry Mims. A committee composed of Steve Wynn, a Decatur black businessman, Dr. Densmore Robinson, the white principal of the Cherry Street School and past president of the Alabama Association of the Disabled and Handicapped, and Rev. Alphonso Robinson, the minister of the Newcomb Street Church of Christ, the Hines' family church, asked Mims to take the case...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Southern Justice: 1978 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

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