Word: heard
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...George wrote the song with Johnny Cash in mind, but Cash wouldn't touch it. Finally, Stonewall Jackson heard it and persuaded George to let him have it. It became Stonewall's first hit in 1959, and George cut it soon after for an album of other people's hits...
Lewis says that he has heard from colleagues that students on committees are sometimes less inclined to see the need for change than faculty members...
...confidentiality of our process would make it tough for a student member, who would doubtless feel that he or she was 'representing' students and yet could not talk about the actual cases being heard. I think there would be pressure and conflict in such a role," he wrote...
...Judicial Board plays quite an insignificant role in the administration of Harvard affairs--to date, it has heard only one case, and it is unclear when or under what circumstances the board would be called together again...
...became a student of Jackson, especially of his oratorical style, his cadences. I heard him speak in every setting from ghetto high schools in Washington and New York ("My mind is a pearl/ I can do anything/ In the worl'.") to sleek 46th-floor dining rooms of the TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy...