Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ownership of steel, declaring: "By the way the owners of the industry have been behaving, nothing short of 100% ownership will do." Then, glancing at Wyatt, he added: "If the industry will come to us, and say that they are prepared for the government to assume control, we will listen to what they have...
...Listen?" yelled Wyatt. "Do you mean, if industry will come forward to concede complete control on less than 100%, you are prepared to listen? If so, I will vote for White Paper." While Big Ben struck 10, Brown shouted, " 'Listen' is the key word...
...influence in world affairs has soared in recent years. A thumbs down to Britain's request would very probably have forced a devaluation of the pound, brought down the Labor government and had profound effects on the West's entire monetary system. When the moneymen speak, governments listen carefully. They practically forced the Wilson government to take restrictive measures, pressured the U.S. Government into steps to correct its chronic balance-of-payments deficit and helped cool the sterling crises...
Sticky Windows. The larger corporations seem to attract the brassier corporate clowns. At Chrysler Corp's meeting in Detroit last week, President Lynn Townsend was forced to listen patiently while a stockholder complained that his Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel...
...program began with the Alleluia, probably the best known motet produced in this century. It's sung almost too much, but Friday night, when the Glee Club and Choral Society started it, I thought I could listen to it a hundred times more. Let us hope hat in his retirement, Randall Thompson will write more music that sings and sounds as well as that little piece...