Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...
John Wesley, the sturdy little founder of Methodism, who began "field preaching" in the open air to whatever plain folk would listen. He wrote in his Journal: "I look upon all the world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged...
Last week 225 colleges and 300 schools were experimenting with the Army's records in language classes. Cornell was already convinced, now uses the Army method exclusively to teach seven languages. In groups of ten, Cornell students listen to the records until they are blue in the face; they put in 120 such "contact-hours" a semester. Cornell figures that new-method undergrads cover twice as much linguistic ground as by old methods...
...drop-forge worker is a peculiar sort of Joe. ... He makes forgings, eight, nine or ten hours a shift. After work he makes them in the tavern, he makes them at the dinner table, in fact, he makes them wherever and whenever he can get anyone to listen-and he always makes them better than the other...
Last week, helped by English friends, Nijinsky was comfortably settled in a country hotel in Surrey. There he plays games of patience with his attendant. He likes to listen to the radio, occasionally dances to music he likes-if there is no one in the room but his wife. He still draws strange faces and spidery designs. When strangers approach, his brown eyes look hunted and wild and he grips his chair. Romola still believes that her husband has a dancing future. Says she: "Nijinsky's one wish is to go to America. There he was happy...