Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized then what a fine political football it would have made, especially since they got $21 just like the rest of us. I remember my basic training with a squad that contained seven fathers and me. During ten minute breaks I had to enthuse over baby pictures and listen to the latest report on what junior said. One daddy with four children kept going through the tough infantry course by imagining how pleasant it would be if he only had his kids along to help him--one to carry his rifle, another his canteen, the third his pipe...
...when Jesse Jones got down to plant prices the businessmen really began to listen hard. Most U.S. industrialists are torn between: 1) a longing to pick up a fine new plant cheap, 2) a horror of having competitive plants and equipment dumped on the market too cheap. Said Jones: "Business will do well to recognize the taxpayer's investments when negotiating for Government-owned plants . . . and not expect too many bargains...
...first job is to deal firmly with our enemies, Editor Armstrong then outlined his own set of basic principles for the peace. Most important: the peace should be based on common agreements among many nations rather than any Big Power Alliance. Thus he put up a "stop, look & listen" sign across the path of the Lippmann bandwagon. Columnist Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Policy, Shield of the Republic (TIME, June 14), more than any other single statement, has popularized the idea of a longtime military alliance with Britain, the Soviet Union, and, if possible, China.* Editor Armstrong answers: U.S. interests...
...Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...
...Listen to Britain (also produced by Humphrey Jennings) is a venturesome attempt to focus attention on the sounds of a nation, rather than on its sights. Some of it is dull because: 1) the sights predominate and are of themselves commonplace; 2) the literal sound issues too predictably from the literal image. But toward the end, sound predominates. At a Myra Hess daytime performance of Mozart's Concerto in G Major, in London's war-stripped National Gallery, quietly the Queen appears, among the bemused faces of her subjects. As the magnificently formal music falls from...