Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret was there for anyone who would listen. Around the little Hotel San Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster...
Though usually under court sentence, the boys wear no uniforms and live behind no walls. Between classes, they work on the school farm, sell whatever milk or food they cannot eat or drink themselves (the farm made over $6,000 last year). In the evenings, they listen to music ("Learning to love beauty is essential," says Floyd Starr) or crowd into "Uncle Floyd's" office for popcorn and cider...
Audience Participation. In Lebanon, Ky., arrested for playing his radio at full blast nightly from midnight to 5 a.m., Norman Ramsey explained to the judge that that particular program was so good that he felt the whole neighborhood should listen...
...last week the crusty New York Republican stopped talking long enough to listen. George Marshall and his new Under Secretary of State, Robert Lovett, talked fast in a private session with Speaker Joe Martin, Taber and other congressional leaders. They laid out all the details of the State Department's plans for spending almost $1.5 billion, down to the last round of machine-gun ammunition the Greeks would get. Then Bob Lovett, in another closed meeting, confronted John Taber and his Appropriations Committee members. Lovett showed them secret intelligence reports about Greece, emphasized his own fears of what would...
...last week Erich went again to a neighbor and offered her some things he had found. She got angry. She was a hungry woman herself, with mouths to feed. "Listen," she said, "I have no bread to give you. Your things are worthless. You should find better things to do than going around begging." She slammed the door. Erich went away, his treasures clutched in his hand...