Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly, a birthday party prank that included a busting balloon or exploding box would not go over well--professors who don't pause for helicopters flying low overhead will pause after a truck backfires and listen for sirens to make sure it wasn't something unexpected...
...Minister's residence. I am free to stop and look up into his kitchen and see what the head of state is having for breakfast, behind a wall and bulletproof glass but no more than 20 yards away. I can put my ear to the wall and try to listen for what song he is singing to put his children to sleep, and if I am tired of walking I can get on a bus a half-block away on a major street...
With the assistance of an 84-foot radiotelescope in Harvard, Mass., Horowitz and his assistants listen for frequencies near the neutral hydrogen line, which could indicate the existence of life in outer space...
...Houses, members of the tutorial staffsay, are willing to listen...
...there is anything the White House should have learned from the most searing scandals of recent history, it is to listen warily to the Senate Chamber--for that is where it is likely to hear the ominous rumble of truth. In Watergate it came in early 1974, when conservative Senator James L. Buckley called for Richard Nixon's resignation, starting the massive Republican defection that ultimately destroyed him. For the defiant and powerful Republican Senator Bob Packwood, it came in 1993, when freshman Democrat Patty Murray, speaking in a tremulous voice that barely carried to the galleries, found the words...