Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With relief the committee then turned from these disagreeable reminders to listen to the voice of experience, that of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I defense tsar. Baruch's testimony had been advertised as a thwacking assault on the bill. Several committeemen hoped this would include a few attacks on Henderson. But tall, silver-haired Bernard Baruch had nothing to say against Henderson; he paid him tribute, called him "Brother...
Peddie, who would rather listen to his favorite Golden Gophers on the radio than watch Harvard trounce Yale, is no mean sportsman himself. He was a member of the Varsity golf team and worked up a College-wide reputation as a ping pong artist...
...intimate adviser, big, handsome, dark Mike Straus, interrupted: "I'll say he's arbitrary. He's ornery, hardheaded, the damnedest, most unreasonable hot-headed man you ever saw." Ickes spoke up mildly, with almost childlike eagerness, peering over the tops of his spectacles: "You see? Listen to him. See how he talks to me. But I don't want any yes-men working...
...pages of this mammoth document were numerous references to Mexico's friendly relations with the U.S., Mexico's willingness to welcome foreign capital, Mexico's place in Hemisphere defense. But what made foreign diplomats in the gallery, including U.S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, sit up and listen was Manuel Camacho's hint that a comprehensive economic agreement may soon be reached between the U.S. and Mexico...
...Some Germans say they are strong-minded enough to listen to British lies and not be harmed by them. I reply this is not true. British lies get into the blood, making listeners weak and tired of carrying on, thus showing that the poisons transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corp. are beginning to work...