Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of people will listen in this Saturday to the 44th playing of the most famed game in football, Army v. Navy.* It will be short-waved to U.S. military posts throughout the world. Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are interested) a play-by-play description in Spanish. But no listener will be more excited than a Polish immigrant who will be getting ready for the night shift at a Steubenville, Ohio open-hearth steel furnace. His son is captain of the Army team...
Every Sunday afternoon, over Manhattan's city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello ("Lippy") LaGuardia speaks "nonpolitically" to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting them to follow him up the steep, stony path of municipal rectitude. Not many of his charges bother to listen. But on the Nov. 7 broadcast, His hen-shaped Honor extended his audience by tripping over his extended...
...Scramble-Tongue) Stephens must be getting old and brittle-boned. He broke an ankle playing basketball, and now has to listen to such taunts as "Good night, Ben, the extremes some guys'll go to in order to wear khakis!" Incidentally, have you piped those fancy fenders Ben's got on those stanchions he hobbles around with...
...think the labor pains were terrific, just listen to those last choruses again...
...Reverend Drummond Duff of Renfrewshire: "From the change in their demeanor, from the evident hardship we saw all around us, it is my conviction the Germans know they have lost the war. The German newspapers are sparing them nothing. They don't need to listen to the BBC to know what is happening to them...