Word: overhear
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...other night we finally took an hour out from Disbursing and allied subjects to drown our troubles in that which the Students' Club is noted for. Evidently others had the same idea for the joint was mobbed. During the period there we chanced to overhear the following scintillating conversation...
...rifles and rifle grenades from every window and balcony. The Americans answered with bazookas, grenades, quick-firing 37-mm. antitank guns. So close and confused was the melee that officers talking over field telephones had to hush their voices lest the enemy in the same or the next building overhear...
Sound trucks that accompany the British Eighth Army let the home folks overhear the talk and work of the British Tommy. Sound trucks have gone with the fighting tanks, sometimes, by accident, preceded them. One BBCman (Denis Johnston, Irish playwright) found himself alone facing an enemy column. BBC listeners later got a laugh from his bewilderment: "I can't see. ... I can't tell. . . . Good God! They're the enemy! . . . Oh. It's all right. They've got their hands up. They're Italians...
...found our fears gravely confirmed when, emerging from the subway the other day, we chanced to overhear two young ladies who were quite absorbed in the blue-clocked splendor of a West Pointer sweeping by. "Gee," we heard one of them question, "d'ya s'pose he's Australian...
...TIME'S correspondent who was present at the curbstone colloquy in St. Peter evidently did not overhear correctly. For Candidate Wallace's elucidation of the other points, TIME is grateful...