Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel the way you used to-but you still have a tremendous interest in the world around you-for not only do you read TIME every week, but you buy two daily newspapers as well -spend 38.4 minutes a day looking through them. You ' listen to the radio commentators (Raymond Gram Swing, Lowell Thomas and Fulton Lewis Jr. are your favorites). You own 241 books, buy eight more every year (TIME subscribers buy about one-eighth of all the adult, non-technical books sold in the U.S.). Your three favorites last year were They Were Expendable, Berlin Diary...
...sobered Congress came back to work this week, ready to listen to any reasonable compromise. They had had their say. More important, they had had a good long talk with the folks back home. The soldiers must vote. Three events speeded the new reasonableness...
...York Times Magazine of Jan. 2, Wendell Willkie had assured "would-be Republican leaders" that Mr. Stalin, an acquaintance he had met on his travels, might listen carefulhy to the kind advice of proved friends; but "when he sees reactionary Democrats or ambitious Republicans stirring up suspicion and hatred toward Russia, he is not at all likely to be affected by American arguments...
...exhausted armies lunged feebly at each other, Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen. In the end the Poles were able to dictate a peace at Riga in 1921, establishing an eastern frontier which lasted until 1939 and the fourth partition of Poland...
...Attention, please!" The amplified voice boomed through the loudspeakers to every corner of Boeing's Wichita plant-"Another blow to the Axis has just been dealt by Boeing workers. Another B-29 has just been delivered to the Army. Listen for the bell. Keep it ringing...