Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Premier arrived in Katowice, capital of Upper Silesia, to make a speech. He ordered General Alexander Zawadzki, governor of the conquered area, to round up 50,000 people for the meeting. As the day wore on, Gomulka's demands got bigger. He demanded 100,000 people to listen to him, then 150,000, then 200,000. The population of Katowice is only 150,000. But a crowd of 200,000 turned out for the speech...
...Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit mediating and began to assert some U.S. ideas...
...week the expatriate might listen to Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller expounding in four-letter words his philosophy of life-the essence of which, Author Putnam says, "was to the effect that prostitutes are about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
...University AVC chapter's Anniversary Dinner in the Hotel Continental last night that the current task of liberal groups is to "find roots in the neighborhood on the basis of everyday activities so that when you speak up on matters of world policy people will stop to listen...
Students, professors, 'Cliffed wellers, and any stray music lovers who pass by are invited to listen, and to join the chores in singing College songs...