Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness was in his words. Said...
...recant, but refused. Thereupon he was dismissed from his post as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. The institute was abolished. Twenty other top Soviet economists were in disgrace along with Varga; their mistake was that they did not listen to a proverb common among embattled Soviet economists: "It is better to defend the government's figures than to go to jail for your...
...parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...used to listen until I burned the food several times...
What on earth could be interesting enough to keep people away from their radios? Audience Surveys recently tried to find out by asking Boston housewives why they didn't listen from 5 to 9 a.m. Some 54% said that they were just too busy sleeping or working at those hours. Other replies...