Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office was known around Washington chiefly for its sex appeal and the brash energy of its occupant. Visitors were decorously received by a brunette bombshell with a rippling voice, ushered into a blue-leather-decorated office by a blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen, to send all over Latin America young men who astonished the natives with...
Since most Houses forbid radio-playing after 10:00 or 10:30 o'clock, the Network has theoretically been wasting its waves on silent receivers during the past year. Actually the ammended parietal rule, which allows students to listen in if their radios are "so adjusted as not to be heard in any neighboring room," throws out unenforceable regulations broken nightly by a large percentage of the College...
...pushed a raft containing these in front of him. It was a frosty night, and he was naked and painted black. Firing from the ships was going on all around. It was a two hours' swim in pitch darkness. He did it, crawled through the scrub to listen to the talk of the enemy, who were so near that he could have shaken hands with them, lit his decoys and swam back...
...country's number one jump band for a House dance is something in the nature of a revolutionary move, I'd like to point out that fact that the Count, surprisingly enough, plays as tasteful a brand of sweet music as you could hear anywhere. If you'll listen to records like If I Could Be With You or Our Love Was Meant To Be, you'll hear popular ballads played the right way--completely devoid of the corny ornaments that are identified with too many dance bands today. I mention this because there are an awful lot of people...
...Emerson D and the New Lecture Hall have been used as sounding boards on crucial issues by many men whose names John Harvard, class of 1991, will remember. Unfortunately these prominent figures do not, like Noah's menagerie, come in pairs. There are many controversial speakers, to whom we listen in order to disagree with them, whom a Political Union dare not sponsor as a lecturer, and cannot persuade to join in a round-table word skirmish...