Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disciplined and undissipated, the Brazilians played as if their national honor was at stake. And indeed it was. Back home, President Juscelino Kubitschek had postponed important political conferences, Vice President João Goulart adjourned the Senate, great crowds gathered in the public squares to listen to kick-by-kick accounts of the games. Well aware that their country was headed for a long spasm of mourning if they lost, the Brazilians never gave the Swedes a chance. They won going away, 5-2. And they headed for home confident of being welcomed as heroes-beyond any argument, the finest...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
...government's toughest troubleshooting jobs, and managed a $300 million cattle and oil empire. But Anderson's Washington reputation came mainly from his Navy Secretary days (1953-54), when he was known as a flexible, laconic worker who stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news spread gradually that here was a man with a tough confidence in a free-operating economy and a determination to keep the U.S. strong in the world. Texan Anderson had one other advantage over George Humphrey: friendship with Texan...
Westerners who have observed him in action admire his gift, so useful in party matters, for being able to make speeches that no one can quite remember. But when he speaks for the academy, the Kremlin itself finds it imperative to listen. To be the president of the academy-or to be one of its 150 academicians, or even one of its 300 "corresponding members"-is to be a part of a favored-at times even pampered-caste upon which an entire nation has placed its hopes...
...when a handclap sounded from the raised platform at the rear. "Mr. Goldstein," said Conductor William Steinberg with icy politeness, "why are you in such a hurry? We do admire the playing of the orchestra, and we are surprised they can play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while 19 fledgling baton wavers flailed away under Steinberg's watchful eye through Liverpool's international competition for conductors...