Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch with the realities of inflation and the mood of the country, including a call for a $12 billion jobs program that Carter had warned he could not accept. The Senator himself won 1,146.5 votes on the final roll call, to Carter's 2,129, an unheard-of performance for a man whose name was never formally placed in nomination, and who officially released his delegates to vote as they pleased before the ballot...
...commitment to the poor, to minorities, to all the disadvantaged. Nonetheless, the party is changing. After its emotional outburst for Kennedy, the convention nominated a President who has proposed limits on social spending and increases in defense outlays, appointed a Federal Reserve chairman who pushed interest rates to unheard-of levels, all but openly engineered a recession in order to slow inflation, and intends to campaign as an advocate of a balanced budget...
Reporters like Wilkie and Bradley are part of an elite corps of journalists, drawn mostly from large newspapers, newsmagazines and the networks, who dominate coverage of such major national events as the conventions. The clout of their employers gives them access unheard of among most regional newspapers and television stations-and hence an influence that far transcends their numbers...
...failed: she had died, soundlessly, of a heat stroke caused by the 100° F weather. In Atlanta, Willie Jones, 52, was discovered prostrate on the floor of his hot, airless apartment; half an hour after doctors packed him in ice, he was still unconscious, with an almost unheard-of body temperature of 116°. In Webster Groves, Mo., Jeneva Goins found her sister Maggie Turner, 65, dead at her dining-room table-yet another victim of the nation's spreading early summer heat wave...
...state of Texas who could ever hear them without difficulty. That will give some idea of the number of Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing. There are approximately 14 million such people in the U.S., and until very recently they have been the true silent minority, unheard as well as unhearing...