Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening how impressed I was with Mrs. Johnson. She and my sister and I were sitting in one part of the room, and Jack and Johnson and some men were in the other part of the room. Mrs. Johnson had a little spiral pad, and when she'd hear a name mentioned she'd jot it down ... Or sometimes if Mr. Johnson wanted her, he'd say, 'Bird, do you know so-and-so's number?' and she'd always have it down. Yet she would sit talking with us, looking so calm...
That unmistakable presidential warning of crackdown worked a dramatic mood change on Manila. A week earlier the capital had been alive with pre-election exhilaration as crowds gathered openly for the first time in nearly six years to hear opposition candidates blast Ferdinand and Imelda for everything from trampling civil rights to amassing private fortunes. Last week the only comments about the presidential couple were paeans from Manila's tame press...
Like the Mikado, who sentenced prosy society bores "to hear sermons from mystical Germans who preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer...
...purpose. School officials, acting on reports from parents alarmed by an apparently high incidence of cancers in the town, had compiled a list of eleven residents recently afflicted either with leukemia or Hodgkin's disease and asked state health authorities to investigate. Now the townspeople were assembled to hear the findings...
...White House senior staffers and Strauss himself viewed him as a brilliant, brittle man with an enormous ego, too jealous of his own territory and difficult to deal with. For his part, Blumenthal considered the President's aides inexperienced and in some cases destructive. When he began to hear stories that he had contributed to Bert Lance's downfall, the Secretary went straight to the President and complained. By then, Blumenthal had decided the only way to endure was to put more emphasis on his personal ties to Carter, and during the past six months he seemed...