Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stenographers on the wire at this end and our correspondent dictated to them for half an hour the inside story about Hess' flight to England, about the discontent in Germany, about the wholesale arrests of once-active Nazis, about the growing isolation of Hitler and his unwillingness to listen to any disagreement, about the demands Germany made on Russia and when those demands were made...
...Patterson offered a modified bill. Its terms limit the requisitioning power to "any military or naval equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials necessary to manufacture of such equipment or munitions." Congress was still sore about the whole subject, but it was willing to listen...
...some unhappy things to say. Ever since World War I ended Germany has systematically plotted France's downfall, through treason in high places, through the venality of the Paris press, through espionage facilitated by France's leaders. M. Chéradame says the French leaders would not listen to him when he urged a knockout blow at Italy when World War II began. With Italy out, he thinks, the Allies could have established a Balkan front and kept Germany fighting on two fronts. Instead Weygand's Army sat in Syria, threatening not Germany but Russia. Thus...
...promote close harmony-as she is sung by Saturday-night whiskey tenors and beery baritones-a device was on sale in Manhattan last week which threatened to bring Sweet Adeline within the reach of all but the tone-deaf. "Listen-n-Sing" phonograph records teach barbershop harmonizing by taking it apart...
...Listen-n-Sing" records were devised by Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...