Word: overheards
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...harried State Department official looked with dismay at a piece of paper on his desk. It was a list of 25 people he was supposed to call to talk about trouble brewing in another part of the world. "My God," he muttered. "What a week!" Agreed a colleague who overheard him: "A nightmare...
...hired gangster because of a property dispute, and the killer went free owing to his political connections. At 17, while South China was still shakily controlled by Chiang Kaishek, Chan was a student at a police training school in Canton. He spoke openly against the Nationalist regime and was overheard by a plainclothesman who warned him that such talk would get him into trouble. To Chan's surprise, the plainclothesman made him a sort of protege-a riddle that was solved six months later when the Red army captured Canton and the cop was revealed as an underground Communist...
...Doctor of Humane Letters at the Benedictine St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala. Done up in black gown and mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus Pauling saying: "Great minds are like movie actors or sports figures-they gather together like a clan. I recognize all but two people here." Said Ethel: "I spent the rest of the night looking for the other...
...annoyed 'Cliffie in the mob was overheard to say, "What's going on? We do this about seven times a year...
...little learning is a dangerous thing. In his new book, Campus U.S.A., David Boroff shows the effects of trying to apply a smattering of knowledge to an extremely difficult task. Armed with snatches of conversation overheard at the NYU faculty mixer, Boroff analyzes 10 American colleges, some great and some ungreat, and comes to several shattering inconclusions...