Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenal opportunity to hear a man of his stature speak," Brogan explained...
Having followed the mayoral race in Baltimore, Md., from afar, I agree that the crowded field of eccentric candidates seems ripe for parody [POLITICAL SCENE, Sept. 6]. However, to hear TIME tell it, the city is so mired in its problems that there is no hope for change. Certainly, urban flight, racial divides and economic struggles are crucial issues that Baltimore faces, but to portray the city as a wasteland populated only by drug lords and underqualified would-be mayors does a disservice to all those who are committed to working for a better future. Growing up in Baltimore...
...HEAR YE Removing a youngster's tonsils and adenoids for recurring ear infections is traumatic enough--and it may not do much good either. In most cases, the surgery results in just a slight reduction in the number of new infections--and only for the first year after the procedure...
...turned our backs to the waves because our life vest in the front has a little pocket of air you can breathe if you're under water. I could hear each wave from behind me like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...
...lowered a diver on a rope. Navy rescue swimmer Shad Hernandez came into the water about 30 yds. from us. He put a harness on each of us, and we were hauled into the helicopter, which was hovering about 15 ft. above the highest waves. I couldn't even hear it because my ears were so full of water. But when it got close, I could feel the beating of the blades in my chest. I'll tell you, that was a very nice feeling. Shad rode up on the rope with me--we were the last ones...