Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that, at times, I am stubborn and refuse to listen to reason, that I am impertinent, and that I deliberately disobey simply because I resent the authority which imposes the rules, regulations, and minor penalties upon me. However, there must be other effective means of punishment than making me down my pants and cross the parental knee. After all, a 15-year-old girl is too old to spank...
Scoop. Newscaster Shirer knew that the Germans had hidden microphones in the armistice car. So he looked until he found a sound truck in the woods. "No one stops me so I pause to listen. It is just before the armistice is signed. I hear General Huntziger's voice, strained, quivering. I note down his exact words in French. They came out slowly, with great effort, one at a time. He says...
...even if Mr. Hull would not listen to a Japanese proposition, the proposition, if made, was significant. It suggested that Japan might be in a mood to go a long way, even to sell out her Axis partners, if the U.S. would just let her liquidate her China venture with a little profit...
...able to gnaw the Axis, steeltough jaws are necessary and not rosy ones used to chewing gum. If you only knew how good and beautiful are the children of Rome and Berlin and how much poetry there is in the youth of Europe, then you wouldn't listen to your and our enemies...
Henderson: "Now listen. Senator, I was a farm boy myself once...