Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexandria was busy last week, but not frightened. In the hotels along the placid, sweeping arc of waterfront, civil servants gathered to talk, listen to radio reports, and read the Reuters ticker. In canteens back in the town, soldiers and sailors waited for orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...
...interviewed by jazz critic George Frazier, plans to speak on some fundamentals of jazz piano, demonstrating them in his own style. Art Hyman and Rupe Wright will be eating it up, and this wouldn't be a bad idea for any of you who play piano or just listen...
This week the Harvard Glee Club comes to Duke, our citadel of higher learning, to sing in the chapel, our symbol of Christianity. Both those who will sing and those who will listen are Americans, citizens of a nation now rising and flexing itself in preparation for the defense of democracy. Once in this land of the free, we proudly say, are men still able to sing; and only in this land resides the power of maintaining that freedom we so loudly land. Yet there is one member of the Harvard Glee Club who cannot sing, here at Duke...
...long time after that, old Michael Joyce of Dulwich Common, London refused to admit that Lord Haw-Haw was his son. He would not listen to Haw-Haw's voice...
Just before Yugoslavia squirmed out of the Nazi net, a series of short-wave broadcasts out of Boston took that country by the ears. In cafes, hotels, libraries and homes, Yugoslavs rallied round loudspeakers several times daily to listen to a call to arms that rocketed from a mike 4,500 miles away. Highly effective, these war cries from abroad were credited in official circles with having played no small part in keeping Yugoslavia out of Hitler's hands. Said a dispatch to the U.S. State Department from the American Legation in Belgrade: "Everybody has been listening...