Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fractious as ever, called a close one on the Detroit Red Wings. Up streaked burly Ebbie Goodfellow, Red Wings captain, to give the umpire a piece of his mind. Calmly eying the big man hovering over him, McVeigh waited until he paused for breath, then let him have one. "Listen!" said he icily, "In the last war I got a dollar ten a day for killing big tramps like...
...more heavily than U. S. Steel, for all Big Steel's defense contracts); 2) it made no allowance for the business cycle and the fact that corporations have to put away funds in good years to tide them over bad ones. But Congress had no time then to listen...
...mill Boston floor show. Last week I went overboard for Roscoe's tenor work. I've heard him several times since then and still haven't eaten my words. If you do go down to the Savoy, ask the band to play Liebestraum, and listen to the way Roscoe builds up chorus after chorus until you say to yourself, it's just too much, and order another drink...
...Salt Lake City range is notoriously skittish. A heavy snowfall often knocks its radio beams out of kilter. In its 120-page crash report, CAB told what it had done to make instrument approaches to Salt Lake City safe. Three radio operators in outlying stations were ordered to listen to the range once an hour, be sure it was working as it should. The operator at Salt Lake City had the same duty. And just to make doubly sure, a recorder was installed near the Salt Lake City airport, recorded the functioning of the beam on a paper tape...
Gertrude Stein says of Ida: "Ida decided that she was just going to talk to herself. Anybody could stand around and listen but as for her she was just going to-talk to herself...