Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidental intelligence gleaned from BBC's survey of U.S. listeners: > 51 of 205 surveyed in Salina, Kans. listen regularly to BBC, like its war shows because they give "better first-hand information than U.S. broadcasts." Some objected to BBC because of the "speech...
...Although 12% of questioned Washingtonians listen to BBC, most capital residents said they did not listen either to BBC or to U.S. broadcasts...
...oven-hot flatlands of southwest Texas last week traveled some 90 U.S. professional men to listen to learned lectures, to watch exhibitions of technique, to talk shop. They looked like any other group of scientists or educators, except that they wore khaki. In a sense they were educators: The deans and professors of the science of aerial warfare. Their profession: killing Japs and Nazis on the wing. Their special field: the high and delicate art of fixed gunnery, practiced in fighter planes while moving several hundred miles an hour...
...said: "Move out, goddamit. Get that machine gun before it gets light or they'll be on us again." Half an hour passed .during which dawn crept over the hills. Morehouse again reported that he had made no progress, and again Chuck Horner spoke to him: "Listen, Al, you got 90 rifles and machine guns. You going to let one machine gun hold you up? We're not getting anywhere by not moving. We'll be here another year at this rate. Why can't you get 'em going? Open up with every rifleman. They...
...simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along pretty well also. . . . Little Bawk and I handled the worst cases. . . . Just as we were really going to town I looked up and saw General...