Word: overheard
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...with distinctly public manifestations. To walk about carrying a single lily in his hand was not simply to throb with pleasure but to be observed doing so. News of Wilde's Oxford eccentricities preceded him in the world at large. When he met a friend outside a theater, he overheard someone say, "There goes that bloody fool Oscar Wilde." Wilde said quickly, "It's extraordinary how soon one gets known in London...
...week's accident, the actual count was almost certainly higher. The names of as many as 1,000 children may not have been included on the ferry's manifest. Passengers who purchased tickets after boarding also may not have been listed in the roster. Some survivors claimed to have overheard members of the crew say there were more than 3,000 people on board...
...Overheard: Harvard senior sub Ryan Chew to Crimson Coach Mike Getman before entering the UConn game late in the second period: "I only score in the close ones, Mike...
From these exercises, scraps of long-forgotten incidents start to emerge from the thickets of memory: eating tomatoes and then being screamed at by a shrewish mother; a father's leaving home; an overheard neighbors' conversation about a brutal father; being rejected by schoolmates. Hal (all patients' names . in this article are fictitious) is responding quickly to Bergman's constant probing and badgering. "It's like a crash course in therapy -- the emotions come up so quickly," he says. "At the same time, you know you're safe because it's only a play...
...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...