Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining his success not long ago, Hopkins said: "You must recognize that the most important thing in dealing with the President is to understand his signal system. With ordinary people you listen to what they say, watch their lips maybe. But with the President, you've got to pay attention to his eyebrows. They're his signals. They're more important than what he says with his mouth. The reason I've stayed with the President so long is that I understand his signals...
Wrote New York Timesman Joseph M. Levy: "It was a heart-rending sight in court today when the octogenarian Mushanoff and 70-year-old Buroff, both of whom devoted the greater part of their lives to the cause of democracy, had to stand for almost two hours to listen to the indictment...
...hair to see whether it is dry and brittle; when a child starts to go, his hair loses oil and it cracks easily. You look down at people's feet to see how many are pus-laden and split by wind or frost. Most of all you listen to the quality of their silence. The longer the trek, the more intense the silence, the more deadly the apathy...
...Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From the bed she slept in, she could stare at a painting on the ceiling and listen to the lion roar in the private...
...often just a loud, vulgar Broadway revue-corn, slapstick and smut, with some fancy production numbers thrown in for size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...