Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their session at Columbia University they had poured out floods of high-minded eloquence until some of them protested, in voluminous orations, against the flood of talk. In an atmosphere of futility that sometimes deepened to gloom, with no crowds in the galleries to listen, with few signs that the U.S. imagination had been fired by their plans, the delegates prepared to go back to their countries-those who still had countries to go back...
While not exactly ominous, the narrator's voice has an authoritarian quality that commands attention, just as Gabriel's trumpet will one day bid us drop whatever we are doing and listen...
...salesman. "It's the weather. Here it's been so warm this month that nobody wants to stay inside and play squash. So they don't buy rackets." The same feeling was expressed in a radio shop. "On a sunny October afternoon the boys stay outdoors. They don't listen to radios. They don't buy any radios either...
Whatever one may think of this slick, glib disposal of a serious composition, it is impossible to deny that even after a lapse of thirty years. Pierrot is a formidable thing to listen to. It is one of the purest examples of atonal music ever composed by Schoenberg or any of his pupils, which is not to say that it is the last word in musical anarchy, but only that it represents in the language of notes what Finnegan's Wake does in the language of words, or Guernica in painting a dissolution of the old formal bases...
...according to Harlow's scouts the Navy not only has the power to grind its opponents to bits, but also finesse to run them dizzy. Listen to Lamar's description of the Navy's favorite play: "Everyone lines up and the center snaps, the ball back. Then there is a sort of milling around in the backfield, and the first time you see Busik he is sidestepping the safety...