Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder. But Lumberman Cox was no babe in the woods. He was smart enough to listen to the manager he had hired: the onetime Boy Wonder, Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, who has learned plenty in the 19 years since he led the Washington Senators to a world championship...
...beer. Marching to the soccer field, they thunder out "Heute gehört tins Deutschland, Morgen die ganze Welt" ("Today we have Germany, tomorrow the world"). Marching back, they sing their sad, old soldier favorite, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"). Italians seem to like to listen rather than sing, are always buying more records (mainly operatic) for their phonographs...
...dean of girl-softball umpires, maintains that the female Lippy Durochers, with their special brand of umpire-baiting, draw larger crowds than Softball's Di Maggios. No one knows how many casual customers became confirmed the day Umpire Wilson was thus bawled out by an exasperated lady catcher: "Listen, big boy, if you'd take your lamps off the batter's knees long enough to look around, maybe you'd see more of these pitches coming over as strikes...
...Plenty (47%) of housewives do not listen to serials at all. A lot (28%) of those who do-plus 36% of all housewives -think that the air is sudsed up with too many soap operas. Most (60%) of those who listen four or more hours a day agree...
...Daytime listeners who leave their sets tuned to one station (19%) are outnumbered by those who listen only to specific programs (51%). Some 13% tune in nothing but news broadcasts...