Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yelling, imploring, they held out their hands to touch him. Nervously, Nehru leaped from the car, made his way to an escorting Jeep, shouting for the people to make way. But his voice went unheard in the thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding...
...hundreds of arbitral and judicial decisions over the past 170 years, it has been almost unheard of for one of the parties to refuse to comply with the decision of a tribunal once it has been rendered. This is so, I believe, for one good reason: if an international controversy leads to armed conflict, everyone loses; if armed conflict is avoided, everyone wins. It is better to lose a point now and then in an international tribunal and gain a world in which everyone lives at peace under a rule...
...tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a sufficient deterring factor." When defense attorneys protested that the jailing was unheard of. Underwood snapped: "There always has to be a first time...
...industry has changed itself completely to lead, cheer and consolidate the revolution. Canned goods are still the old and tested convenience foods, but such startling gains have been made by mixes, frozen food and instant drinks that one in every three of the time-and labor-saving products was unheard of only ten years...
...Addis Ababa, jodhpur-wearing Ethiopians can sit in the King George bar and read the news flashing a la Times Square across the top of the Modanova department store. And in Haile Selassie I Square, Volkswagens and Fords jostle for position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million...