Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell them that my mind is sick and bitter. Tell them that I want to believe in my country but find it increasingly difficult to believe in its people. But who will listen? Who will want to listen to a solitary soldier crying out for justice? Who is interested in mere words when big money can be made-and the boys are dying in the Pacific...
...committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past), iron out conflicts, set policies, steer for a united front against inflation...
...Calling America . . . Goebbels calling America . . . Listen America . . . Do you see that you are beaten? Has your confidence been shaken? Now do you realize that past performances don't mean a thing? That potential resources won't do you any good? That American institutions will not stand up against a youthful, fighting faith? That blitz tactics can succeed? After all, the Cardinals...
...scurried to Chicago last week for the annual convention of the American Cosmeticians National Association, worried about the loss of their nimble-fingered beauticians who are fleeing to defense jobs (as one girl said, "I work fewer hours in nicer surroundings and I don't have to listen to that damned gossip all day long from those chairs full of busybodies...
...drugstores, barbershops, lunch wagons, parlors and pool halls, over 25,000,000 radio listeners will cock their ears next week to listen to three men-the sportscasting trio that broadcasts the World Series. Their play-by-play highlight of baseball's Big Hour will be short-waved to U.S. fighting men overseas and will be revamped into Spanish for Latin Americans...