Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conclude a separate peace and is urging a general peace settlement which will include Germany. ... The Italian suggestion has been made through Turkey. The feeler is reported to have come directly from Foreign Minister Guariglia. Germany's Papan is busy in Ankara . . . insinuating to anyone willing to listen that if the United Nations try to impose merciless terms upon Italy which might be a precedent against Germany, then Hitler might seek peace with Russia...
Sirs: The artist's sketch of the Senate in the background of the Senator George cover (TIME, July 19) must have reminded others as it did me . . . [that] when we were kids in school we had to listen to what the teacher was saying. We couldn't read or sleep. Maybe we had to listen because our minds were growing and capable of learning...
From there, with a full cast of white and Negro actors, CBS went on to describe the riot dramatically, honestly. It told of the initial fight on the Belle Isle Bridge ("Listen, you get out of that car and I'll show you, you black. . . ."), the angry rumors and how they grew ("That black boy's quite a baby with his fists. . . ." "A baby thrown off the Belle Isle Bridge"), the bloodshed ("1,800 arrested . . . 600 injured ... 35 dead . . . the majority Negroes. . . ."). Then the program moved on to the causes of the riot...
...listen to me ... no don't try to tell me you're busy. You sit right down and listen. Time was when the Lampoon could have a quiet movie made of it ... even a double feature. '...' without all this stupid fuss. It used to be a cinch. All we did was demand casting rights, royalties, and then sue for deformation of character...
...with doctors because, when he went to have the opening (medical name: stoma) treated, doctors appeared more interested in the stoma than in Tom. Once when a doctor left him for a moment to call in colleagues, Tom disappeared from the examining table. After that he would let doctors listen to his chest and look down his throat, but he would not let them look at his stoma nor peer through it at his stomach...