Word: overheard
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Meanwhile in Boston, before the giant Dartmouth game, a bellhop at the Big Green dance was overheard to say that Dartmouth students were more generous and better dancers than the Harvards, though the latter showed greater signs of sobriety than the invaders from Hanover. The Indians crushed Harvard on the gridiron the next afternoon...
There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct -in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized...
...Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee's press party in Washington last week, newsmen were astonished to see Joe McCarthy approach his erstwhile adversary, John Foster Dulles, and greet him with a warm smile and an affectionate bear hug. What they overheard surprised the eavesdroppers even more. "Foster," said Joe, "you've been a pretty good boy over the past six months...
...masonry wall, tape recorders so compact that they will fit into a coat pocket. Long before 1984, the state of affairs depicted by Novelist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four will be a technological possibility: "You had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard . . . every movement scrutinized...
...open and cleared him for an instrument approach. Hodge, leading a flight of four F-84s of the Georgia National Guard's crack stunt-flying team on a night-training flight from Miami, said he was starting down through the fog and rain. A moment later, the tower overheard one of Hodge's wingmen say: "I don't like this at all." Another pilot in the formation answered: "How do you suppose I feel...