Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predicted World War II: "I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world. . . . There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action. . . . But no one would listen...
...Phil Murray. Said the Record: Philadelphia's electrical workers "have been so misled that they are flatly defying our courts and all constituted authority. . . . Constituted Government has only one answer to that. We've tried to tell this to the C.I.O. leaders. No go. Maybe they will listen to you. We hope so. For the sake of the C.I.O., and the future of the labor movement in America...
Then he led on stage 27-year-old Negro Contralto Carol Brice, a tall girl dressed in a simple black dress. She waited quietly while Koussevitzky scampered out front to listen. Then she sang Handel's My Father and Where Shall I Fly?; two lieder and a rhythmic Hall Johnson spiritual. Her singing brought the house down. After the concert, Koussevitzky led her to the foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like...
Shells & Toppers. Britons were too busy with the mere mechanics of existence; they could not listen to the rumblings of a shaking empire. It was of more immediate interest that seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
...Take it slowly, easily," said the blue-grey-eyed psychiatrist (who, as this book's laconic hero, has helped to win its author the $10,000 Harper Prize Novel Contest). "Listen, don't you want me on the couch?" muttered John Brown, who had come to his session of psychoanalysis feeling as supine in body as in mind...