Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just recently returned from my first visit to Scotland and England in seven years. ... I stood in the queues to listen. Of the Americans I heard no word of envy or criticism...
...presidential aspirant Stassen, the nugget of victory had many facets. He had come back from defeat in the Nebraska primary (TIME, June 24). He had increased his prestige enormously within the Republican party. He had proved that the voters of traditionally isolationist Minnesota were willing to listen to his pro-U.N., pro-British Loan brand of internationalism. Said he: "A decisive victory for a progressive Republican policy...
...Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage, a 40-member four-part chorus, struggling through a Hindemith chanson, was having soprano trouble. Conductor Robert Shaw pleaded: "No, girls, Wa ta is so wrong. Listen to the way the tenors do it ... I want just a great big C sharp...
...hand around a Scotch & water and ruminated: "A drink is good any time, but it's better when you need it." How much he needed it, he indicated when a fellow drinker asked: "What goes on, anyway?" Replied Ernie: "I don't know. I just sit and listen. I know that if I fall back on the wisdom of the U.S. I will be all right. Jim will have a formula...
...poor, starving German Burghers" were busy with the erection of roadblocks, laying mines, stringing road cables to decapitate drivers and sniping at American soldiers. Then when they were certain that the Americans were there to stay, waving white flags and vociferously claiming to anyone foolish enough to listen that they were never Nazi. "Ich nicht Nazi" were the first words you heard on entering a town. Now these people have the whole world sorry for them. They aren't getting enough to eat. Neither are the Greeks, Dutch, Belgians, Polish, Yugoslavians, Chinese and others who have fought on our side...