Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, having done all he could, Tom Dewey and his handsome wife, the former Frances Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., settled down in their dignified hotel room, with its mulberry walls and rose drapes, to listen to the nominating speeches on television. The Governor was quite composed...
...risking himself again. Through the Hungarian countryside he drove his own Alfa-Romeo at a dangerous pace from one mass meeting to another. After Communist police cut the power supply for his sound truck, he got his own portable generator. The government warned Hungarians not to listen, but the cardinal drew crowds of as many...
...House of Lords was packed with aroused peers as it had not been in years. Out of its 850-odd members, normally only a tenth or less attend.* But last week 258 showed up to listen, speak and be counted. In the debate, some of them displayed a lively concern over an issue deeper than steel or immediate programs. Old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet...
...skeptical Scottish undergraduate named Loudon Hamilton, who, when Buchman first urged him to listen for God's instructions, replied: "I have been accustomed to address God myself on occasion . . . but that was only a one-way communication. If God were to speak to me, as you suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven...
...girl paid to talk (and listen) to lonely bar customers, keep them buying drinks...