Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When these claims got around Washington, the State Department (which had not named any of the ousted workers) hastily set up a three-man loyalty board of review to listen to their protests. Then State pointed out that the purgees could take their case through a series of additional Government appeal boards to the courts...
...Legion's advance guard arrived this week, Legionnaires seemed a little puzzled by all the todo. They talked mostly about business. They had 800 resolutions to consider, ranging from veterans' housing to immigration. In Madison Square Garden and the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, they would listen to a whole flock of headline speakers: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Air Forces' Tooey Spaatz, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, New York's Governor Tom Dewey, and Britain's Captain Sir Ian Fraser, president of the British Legion...
...Navy League dinner. He said: "I'm sorry I'm late, but I've just left a Cabinet meeting. This is one of the most momentous days in the history of the British Empire, and I advise you to listen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer tonight...
...There could be no right of free speech if there were not a corresponding right not to listen...
...Brian! Naughty!" scolded Mrs. Ralph Bell, wagging a finger at her 2½-year-old son. She went to .the radio and snapped it off. "How many times must I tell you, you must never listen to your father on the radio...