Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jewett also said he would try to inform more students about their right to request a hearing before the Student-Faculty Judicial Board, created last year to replace the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. The board, which has only heard one case to date, rules primarily in cases in which the Ad Board does not have a clear precedence...
...magic words "Marshall Plan" are already being heard. It worked once, didn't it, on a continent ravaged by war? Since Eastern Europe's factories and distribution systems are all intact, if bedraggled, shouldn't a little pump priming bring forth a gusher of goods...
...hero Bernard Samson, a British agent watching for trouble at the Wall, asked his friend Werner Volkmann, "How long have we been sitting here?" and Volkmann answered sourly, "Nearly a quarter of a century." Spy Line, set in the present, starts off with a joke that might have been heard over coffee at a Tory think tank: "Glasnost is trying to escape over the Wall, and getting shot with a silenced machine gun!" Its pivotal violence is a bloody shoot-out during an attempted escape along the autobahn from Berlin to the West...
Shortly afterward, Bush's aides, particularly Baker, began talking -- first privately, then publicly -- about "helping" Gorbachev. They had heard the H word from their boss, so the taboo was lifted...
...killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of seeing as many as 30 men in olive-drab uniforms enter the priests' residence, and one woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown to the U.S. The murders were also carried out during the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, when only the military...