Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formidable Problems. Now the nation's rising awareness of ecology has moved scores of judges to listen. In the past summer alone, a federal judge delayed Walt Disney Productions' ski-resort scheme in California's Mineral King Valley until conservation groups can have their say in court. A six-lane highway planned to run along the Hudson River was stopped when conservationists cited an obscure law requiring congressional approval of any project involving a dike on an interstate navigable waterway...
...corn in the fields. Listen to the rice as the wind blows Cross the water. King Harvest will surely come...
...Listen to one of the political scientists interviewed by the Committee...
...rock and roll freaks are also inveterate list-makers, and we spend a large part of our non-listening hours Ranking the Groups we listen to the rest of the time. The puzzle is that in nearly every such reckoning the Beatles come out regularly, monotonously on top of the heap. This is puzzling because the other groups that populate the upper reaches of today's pop hierarchy are so incredibly good in their own special professional ways that it is difficult to see how a bunch of amateurs like the Beatles invariably manage to surpass them all. Thus...
Costin said that a government corporation is needed to handle the yearly increase of two billion pieces of mail. "We must plan ahead," he added. "We were told years ago about air and water pollution, and we didn't listen...