Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how much opposition, Maury would run a good race. Something had gentled the old Maverick. He was something to see and listen to. Last week a businessman in the crowded lobby of The St. Anthony Hotel told him: "I never did vote for you in my life." In the old days, Maury's reply would have been: "No, you son-of-a-bitch, and I don't want you to vote for me now." But this time he said: "Maybe you did right. I made a lot of mistakes. . . . But now I'm for what...
Andrei Gromyko is the darling of the bobby-soxers at Lake Success. They want his autograph; they like to listen to his rich Russian voice, but they seldom try to understand his speeches. Even grownups who listen intently to Gromyko do not always hear the same things. Last week, many thought Gromyko was saying again that the U.S. should promise not to use The Bomb and to scrap those it has before any solid machinery is built to enforce atomic arms control...
...Watch and Ward Society, the population of Greater Boston today consumes what may well be a larger portion of spice with its reading than any other group of people in the country. Bostonians bow gracefully to the rebust vigilantes in matters of what plays to see, what songs to listen to, and what books to read, as long as they are left free to romp unfettered among the ax murders and attacks willingly dispensed by their morning papers...
Arriving in Manhattan, Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 43-for years one of Britain's very brightest young men-ducked the press for three days and then sped off to Hollywood on what sounded like a dream mission, even by Hollywood standards. He would listen to MGM's ideas on filming his Brideshead Revisited; if he didn't like the sound of them, he could suggest changes; if the changes weren't suitable, he could just go sell the book to someone else. Meantime, M-G-M had contracted to maintain him in the most luxurious possible style...
...emphasis," Mrs. Thackrey says, "will be on programs with some real intellectual insides. I know nobody has ever listened to them. But I think they would if such things were done really well and with some showmanship. We're going to concentrate on that. The sponsors will come along when people start to listen. Why, in a year we'll be right back in the black...