Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in 1942, the Army fitted some of its coastal minefields with underwater microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...
Lesser Sounds. Atlanta, Albuquerque and Buffalo were not the only towns where gossipy local items seemed as interesting again as more ponderous news. The nation, which had been deafened a little by the last big bang of World War II, was beginning to listen to lesser sounds. By now the U.S. had become matter-of-fact about peace: the new civilian clothes on veterans had lost that store press, the words "President Truman" no longer sounded odd, and Rosie the Riveter seemed almost as dated as the Gibson Girl...
...League, it was leathery-faced Eddie Dyer's first season as a big league manager; if his Cardinals won, everyone would say they couldn't have missed with all that talent; if they lost, it would be all his fault. Said he gloomily, to anyone who would listen: "I need an A-1 catcher. My pitchers...
Walter Winchell says he stays up to listen. About 700,000 others get up in time to do the same. The program: Breakfast with Dorothy & Dick, served between the grouchy hours of 8:15 and 8:45 a.m. (Sundays from 11:30 to 12) on Manhattan's WOR. The cast: Columnist Dorothy
...problem is one of finding sufficient manpower to meet our occupation requirements and to fulfill our commitments to the United Nations police force. Our military experts, headed by General Eisenhower, have stated unequivocally that the present demand can be filled only by Selective Service. Yet the Representatives choose to listen to their campaign managers rather than their conscience. The exemption of 18 to 20 year-olds from the draft would in itself reduce the act to impotency, because the drafting of 18-year-olds since 1943 has already caught men now in their early 20's. The substitution of recruiting...