Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose to defend himself, spectators began to experience an uneasy perplexity. The chunky Japanese neither cringed nor swaggered. He bowed politely to the five U.S. generals sitting as judges. With ponderous dignity he instructed the Nisei interpreter: "Yamashita wants no mistakes. On long sentences I will repeat them twice. Listen carefully." Then he seated himself in the witness chair, denied that he had ever known of Philippine atrocities, much less condoned or ordered them...
...Pound forsook his country: the U.S. would not leave off rustling its bank notes to listen to him. The separation was final. London listened more attentively. There Pound began to publish his opaque, lapidary, brilliantly polished poems. Some of the literati began to call him the master verse maker of his generation...
...Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying 'democracy' too far if you punish generals for waging...
There is some kidding because Mr. Coen has been off for a week shooting pheasant in South Dakota. He says it was the happiest week of his life because he did not have to listen to Reuther.) Coen: Is the U.A.W. fighting for the whole world? Reuther: We have been fighting to hold prices and increase purchasing power. We are making our little contribution in that respect...
Sporting Britons cheered each Russian goal, cried "Up the Soviets!" In a dynamic spurt the Dynamos tied up the game. Final score: Russians 3, British 3. Said the Russian announcer at game's end: "Listen, comrades in Moscow, Leningrad, Tiflis and Berlin-we have passed our first exam with honor...