Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dowager Marchioness revealed that she has organized squads of women to listen attentively, sympathetically and endlessly to the verbal outpourings of those war-shocked Britons who enjoy telling about how they were bombed. To most Britons, "Speaking of bombs . . ." has become as dull a phrase as "Speaking of operations ..." and the press has made fun of "bomb bores...
Meanwhile in Birmingham bomb bores formed a mutual-aid society, "The Birmingham District Bombees Association," to listen to one another's bomb stories...
...have never before written a letter to an editor but I feel compelled to do so as I listen to Mr. Willkie speak of "unity" on the radio...
...most of the 130,000,000 U. S. citizens mid-December is a time to make themselves comfortable for the winter: a time to muffle up in warmer clothing, to eat more warming food, to use more fuel, to read more and listen more to the radio, to look out for colds, and (for 25,000,000 of them) to put anti-freeze in the radiator of the car. Many U. S. citizens go traveling at this time of year, on warm trains across State and national borders; a few of them even go to warmer countries, with no more...
...scarce. Few will have enough heat. Fewer still will eat enough food, for Europe's food supply is reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages...