Word: heard
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...heard a rumbling, a very loud rumbling," said Whitelaw, who was on an indoor tennis court at the time. "It sounded as if your car was gearing back and you were stripping the gears, and the typical rumble you get from a jet plane going over...
...same critics (doubtless Harvard Alumni Association and Massachusetts Hall heavies threatened by the success of prodivestment petition candidates for Booard of Overseers) were not heard from when they nominated Sen. Albert Gore '69, who, according to informed sources, attended not a single meeting during his first year on the board. And the trip from Washington to Cambridge was a little easier for Gore than for Tutu...
...Yankee abroad in Tokyo sends in this musical report: "I spoke of my love for MacArthur/ The man not the park in L.A./ 'But you're so much older!' she covered her shoulder/ And I heard her say with a sigh/ 'A soldier may never...
Their answers surprised me, perhaps because we in the U.S. are tempted to see the triumph of democracy in Eastern Europe wholly through an American prism: as a triumph of American values as opposed to human values. The voices I heard in East Berlin told me this is a mistake -- presumptuous, wrongheaded, shortsighted...
...daughter, an actress in her mid-20s, have been active in the opposition. She recites a litany frequently heard: kindergartens, excellent schools and libraries; this is not the Soviet Union with bread shortages, this is not Poland with its Catholic Church, this is not Hungary with its historic antipathy to the Russians and socialism...