Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor to Andorra since his namesake Charlemagne passed through eleven centuries ago on his way back from battling the Moors...
Defeats. His tireless public career as Labor candidate for Parliament, as assiduous sitter on committees, is the record of one defeat after another. Nobody would listen-even when, as adviser to the Labor Party on foreign affairs, he tried in 1938 to muster the party to support rearmament against Hitler. Nobody, Woolf complains, read his three-volume treatise on politics...
That tolerance is one of this University's greatest strengths, a tribute to its willingness to listen to all voices however shrill...
...There are those who would always rather be Red than dead, who do not mind seeing small nations gobbled up. They would almost rather be anything but responsible. What do they know, these bearded oafs who listen to the strumming of lugubrious guitars? To be loved is not the end of greatness."--Dr. George R. Davis, in a sermon Oct. 22 at a church service attended by President Johnson...
They will save their children from the murder that the people in this audience (as citizens of Massachusetts) have unpardonably permitted--and they will not listen when you tell them to go slow...