Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puerto Rico's sugar industry is depressed, her coffee trade war-killed, her population problem acute, her living costs high, labor restless (although the U. S. is spending $40,000,000 for defense in Puerto Rico). One of Muñoz Marin's first tasks was to listen to complaints of 700 workmen about a row with U. S. Marines at their work on a new airfield...
...Listen, girl I love...
...Matthiessen stated last night that: "The meeting was originally devoted to a serious purpose, a discussion of peace. I am not at all sure that I agree with the views of the new speakers, but the rally, and the speakers may represent minority view-points. In a democracy, we listen to minority view-points...
...teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief. I had to feed a family of five-listen carefully-upon $11.25 a month." The family she referred to is made up of the Saskatchewan farmer she married and their three children. English by birth, Mrs. Nielsen was trained as an art teacher, taught in Saskatchewan schools before she was married...
...short airs with the recitatives to produce a work of extreme simplicity, the very opposite of Handel's elaborate de capo arias which alternate with stretches of dreary dialogue. And in passages like Adonis' death scene, he rises into the front ranks of composers. For musical humor and simplicity, listen also to the duet of Venus and Adonis beginning "Adonis will not hunt today," and to Cupid's spelling lesson in the second...