Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life along lines of personal freedom, with the right to a trial by jury when we are accused of crime, the right to print what we want to say in our papers and preach what we want to preach in our pulpits and over our radios, and to listen to the same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that the individual and all he has belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural...
...when the French listen to enemy broadcasts which tell them this war is England's war they reply: No, it's Hitler...
...Nazi Germany it is verboten to listen to foreign broadcasts. Last week the British were planning a program that they hoped Germans would listen to in spite of prohibitions: Names of Nazi prisoners and dead and wounded identified by the Allies will be rushed to London from the front, broadcast to Germany on BBC's daily medium-wave news periods in German...
Discontinued over the summer, the broadcasts were resumed on a daily basis during the August crisis. They were again suspended only when it became high treason under German law to listen to foreign newscasts, and when all powerful receiving sets in Germany had been confiscated...
...putting them in vocal italics. He was warming to his subject now, growing the warmer as the circle around him grew the larger. Pleased and flattered, he, the center of attention for once. These newcomers. He knew a few things which they did not. And they seemed willing to listen...