Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been importuning the U.S. to provide them with modern weapons. But U.S. negotiators came to realize, more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers of disarmament. A large part of this need -as reflected by Germany's Konrad Adenauer-stemmed from Russia's successes with the Sputniks, which had encouraged Europe's neutralists and embarrassed the U.S.'s most solid friends...
...appears that Mr. Stevenson's moderate and yielding policy has been left at home with its author. But now more than ever before America must at least seem willing to listen to opposing arguments and the advocates of diplomatic arbitration. Regardless of our subsequent action, we must restore our allies' confidence by adopting a frank and temperate posture before them...
...score of places to live. Buck thought he would like to teach music. As soon as he and Superintendent Sasser agree on a place for him to go, he will be free-free, as Buck put it, "just to go out and sit in a park and listen to a good band...
These are the things which Adlai Stevenson can say to the American nation, to those who voted for him and to the many more who are now ready to listen. Indeed, these are the things which he has an obligation to say. His words this time will have an audience...
...long sought a course enabling them to read Soviet publications. With Russia leading the United States and Britain in both publication and translation of scientific articles, Russian is fast displacing English as the language of science and technology. If security regulations muffle our own voice, we should learn to listen to another...