Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present system--shouldn't a student be allowed to defend himself when he thinks his Senior Tutor will distort his case? Last year Monro decided that in special cases where the student is convinced the Ad Board has the wrong information, a special subcommittee will be appointed to listen to the student's grievance. But in the last three years, Monro adds, no case has warranted a hearing. As it stands now, a student is asked to submit a written statement about his case to the whole Board, but this provision does not allow the student the possibility of rebuttal...
Also unchanged is the Voice's basic approach to news, which is to tell it straight. "You can't talk down to people," says Chancellor, a former White House correspondent for NBC. "They won't listen. And you can't lie to people. You'll get caught." Despite sporadic grumblings from congressional flag-wavers, the Voice scrupulously tells both the good and the bad about the U.S., presents both sides of all major issues...
...moderate King Hussein, who is more or less caught in the middle between the Israelis and the Arab extremists, he had to listen to radio pleas from Syria and Egypt urging Jordan's 700,000 Palestinian refugees to overthrow their monarch. To get his country ready for any explosion, Hussein put his security forces on a round-the-clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon...
...which seemed to fall on deaf ears. Said Non-Student Savio, as the strike continued: "We have gobs of great things popping up because only when we have palpable power will the university listen to our demands. We have power...
Audiences watch and listen agog as the big, blond, open-shirted Siberian submits to the passion of his verse and rolls a voice like an organ through the packed halls...