Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was blocking the aisle. Said the operator: "Hell no, move it yourself." The foreman had to get a maintenance man to move the box. While the box was being moved, the machine operator declaimed for 45 minutes on his "rights," Other workmen left their machines, gathered around to listen. The foreman could do nothing; he did not want the workers to have a new "grievance...
...Once we saw a 70-year-old British physician ordered off a roadway by an Indian guard who had gone over to the Japs. The old man apparently didn't hear, and straightened up to listen. The Indian rushed up and slapped him so hard he fell to earth. Then the Indian kicked him viciously until several Britons carried the old man away. And this was not an isolated case...
Eight Million Listen...
...committee will hold no public hearings (there have already been no less than 17 separate Congressional hearings on rubber). It will listen to no crackpots. It will gather facts, listen to a few men who know, and make recommendations on a war rubber program. On its report-which is not likely to be postponed till after the elections-decisions about nationwide gas rationing and motor transportation are to be based. And if the committee does a good enough job, it may well become the nucleus of the "economic high command" of which all Washington was talking last week...
...Listen, Judge. In Chicago, a Texas badman, Taylor N. Whichard, told the judge that if all charges against him were dropped, he would personally rub out Adolf Hitler. The judge, unmoved, gave him nine years...