Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Breach. The Russians did not have to listen to such words of protest often. Whenever unpleasantness threatened, an American leaped into the breach. When Dwight Macdonald, editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty...
...have captured the great propaganda citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...
...that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow and had a drink in it, I would toast-Henry Blanke [Treasure's self-effacing producer...
Yesterday, thousands swarmed through Tech's 46 buildings along the Charles to sightsee and to listen to an imposing array of panel discussions which undertook to analyze the achievements, trends, and unsolved problems of 50 years of the 20th century...
Alan Barth, editorial writer for the Washington Post, emphasized this point the most. He said, "An editorial writer is first a reporter who knows how to read as well as listen and second, one who wants to improve the community of which he is a part. Starting as a reporter will keep an editorial writer from living in an ivory tower...