Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...management which had allowed deadly quantities of coal dust to gather in the tunnels at Centralia No. 5. Neither was it Robert M. Medill, the cynical, hard-drinking director of the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Medill had sought political contributions from mine owners. He had refused to listen to an inspector who had pleaded that the Centralia mine be closed as a deathtrap. Medill resigned in a hurry-but Lewis showed no interest in him. He was after bigger game...
Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...
Before the war her old-fashioned apartment (sometimes called la boulangerie) in Montmartre was a musical rendezvous of Paris. There, with the framed visages of Liszt, Rubinstein, Beethoven and Stravinsky staring from the walls, students gathered every night to talk, listen, play and, on occasion, eat. The two pianos and pipe organ in the apartment were seldom silent...
...sugar bushes (maple groves), it glinted on some 3,000,000 tin buckets hanging on the grey trees. This week, as the weather turned warm, the groves tinkled with the "plunk plunkplunk plunkplink" of maple sap dropping into the buckets. "Dollars droppin'," Vermonters said, as they paused to listen. It was sugaring time...
...parents, schools, courts and jails, made a specific recommendation: neighborhood councils, to whip the community into action. By week's end, thousands of enthusiastic letters had flooded in. CBS had demonstrated that when radio has something to say about an important problem-and says it intelligently-people will listen...