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Word: listen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallup made lengthy conclusions about this striking phenomenon. He first recognized that Americans would often be listening directly to the president, as they had in the debates, and that because of this fact the debates had been helpful in allowing all Americans to choose the man they wanted to have to listen to for the next four years, maybe eight...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Making of the President '68 | 7/16/1968 | See Source »

...your perception of those who live it. You see plainly the origins, but not feeling its message, you subject it to comical distortions or paternal niceties. As is evident in many crumbling households, the would-be Great White Father is well advised to "just be quiet and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1968 | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...occupied by an antiforce, as hippies from all over the U.S. invade it for what may be the flagging flower world's last great love-in. They spend their days singing, sleeping and making love. As the hot weather sets in, they frolic in the Frog Pond or listen to rock concerts by such groups as the Ultimate Spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Love-In in BossTown | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...from midnight money worries, fears of being fired and yearnings for unreachable possessions, why don't we wealthy ones make better use of our lives? Some of us do like the Kennedys and the Rockefellers but most of us are just as confused as anybody else. Maybe more so: listen to what a lady I know told me about her good friend Gianni Agnelli, the Italian motor magnate. "When he even fleetingly wants something," she said, "he buys it. But I think this is simply because he wants to forget that he wanted something he didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING VERY, VERY RICH | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Nathanson: You know, you can do a fantastic industrial campaign on the idea of a silent pen. Because just think of the noise level. I mean, nothing is noisier than these competitor's pens. Everybody quiet. Just listen. (He scratches first with the competitor's pen, then with a Flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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