Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prisoners can listen to a radio (but not short wave). They like American jazz. It is not unusual to see a K.P. detail sitting around a potato pile singing The Trolley Song with heavy Teutonic accent while they peel. In one compound, Don't Fence Me In is a favorite...
...Times, which prints German communiques in full, is a favorite. For the most part the prisoners think U.S. newspaper stories are accurate, although dyed-in-the-wool Nazis are deeply suspicious, and seize on the most trifling mistake as proof that the U.S. press is full of lies. They listen to news broadcasts with equal distrust...
...Iowa night life, the waitress said: "For two or three nights there won't be any women in here. Then a flight of planes will be grounded at the airport. Honestly, I believe the place fills up with women before the wheels touch ground. Or maybe they listen to the weather reports and flock in when it's ceiling zero...
...Chief reasons that predispose an individual to listen to rumors, concluded Allport, are 1) frustration, 2) a guilty conscience, 3) simple love of a good story...
...ship's concert on a trip to Sweden with her Swedish-born parents, she found her career. To a fellow passenger, Marian Anderson's onetime accompanist Kosti Vehanen, her untrained mezzo-soprano sounded like unmistakable opera material. Vehanen shouted his enthusiastic opinion to anyone who would listen. When Blanche got home, her boss's parents agreed to finance her training...