Word: eavesdropping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which the 2,000 delegates were to meet was being kept under careful wraps until the last moment. In marked contrast with an American political convention, there would be no prying TV eyes, no creepie-peepies to eavesdrop on unrehearsed moments, no hooting and howling from spectators in the galleries-and nothing to be really voted on, either...
...launch a headhunting raid. With solemn care and deliberation, the warriors and elders work out a plan of campaign. Scouts are sent into the interior to select a victim-village. They explore its approaches, creep close to its huts, study the habits of its people. They try to eavesdrop on conversations to learn their victims' names...
...others plan to join them by 1953. The U.S., with 17 million TV sets, has more than six times as many as the rest of the world; second place, Britain, with 1,350,000; third, Canada, with 90,000 (though it has no TV transmitters operating yet and must eavesdrop on U.S. telecasts). Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, France and the Soviet Union follow, with 30,000 to 50,000 sets each, with Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Argentina far behind. By this fall, Canada and seven Latin American nations expect to be televising their own shows...
...called upon to chide the Russians, she never treats them as baleful bogeymen but simply as naughty-and rather ignorant-boys. She does not hide her amusement at the fact that the most exalted Soviet official dares not speak privately with a Westerner without another Russian beside him to eavesdrop...
...valiant viewer of television for tots, but having read your article and noted horrified reactions of mothers, who eavesdrop on childish programs, I merely wonder if those anxious adults ever happened to read Grimm's Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Andersen...