Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...survey, called the Radio Acceptance Poll (RAP), grew out of a Toledo meeting last May of the National Federation of Catholic College Students. Almost 100 of the federation's 180 Catholic schools agreed to listen in every week and report reactions to 16 big comedy shows. Some 30 Protestant and 17 Catholic clubs will participate...
Sandwich Man. As a war correspondent and writer for the New Yorker, Joe Liebling, a fat, friendly man who likes to listen while he works, proved himself one of the best U.S. reporters. Before that his career was often more down than...
...Schiebst Du?" It is nearly two and a half years since V-E day, and anyone who wants to realize how long a time that is need only listen to Germans. In May 1945 the Germans, humbly incoherent, thought the conquerors would impose their will on Germany, and that their will would be a German democracy. Instead, in each zone, the occupying power tried to set up a German administration in its own image. Not even the Russians succeeded...
...lecturer injected some personal hygiene instruction into the program. Painted faces grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...