Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution is simple. Limit subsidy maximum to $5,000 per farm enterprise; henceforth make public all subsidy payments, locally. Then listen to the yowls drown out the fallout...
...When Jimmy was four, John Hoffa died with a coating of coal dust on his lungs. Viola Riddle Hoffa, mother of two girls and two boys, was as tough as her husband. Says Jimmy's brother Bill: "She was always telling us, and she made us listen, that Dad always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told you once. The second time it meant a swat across the mouth." To this day, one of Jimmy Hoffa's proudest boasts...
...engine inside Hoffa that keeps him running so hard? The coal biter's son says a lot about it himself. In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, "at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason? Did you ever hear of confidence? Did you ever hear of people accepting a man on his bond? At a meeting three weeks ago, I put out some pension checks for the first time...
...long before a sincere music lover will have to look for his choice in terms of something like Music to Listen to Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony...
...they got Red from the Giants last June (in a trade for Pitcher Ray Crone, Second Baseman Danny O'Connell and Outfielder Bobby Thomson), the Braves got the leader they had been lacking for so long -a man who could tell them how to play and make them listen. Switchhitter Schoendienst had been around the league for so long (eleven years with the Cardinals before he went to the Giants) that one Milwaukee sportswriter was sure he was "Moses, come to lead the Braves out of the wilderness of bitter disappointment and frustration of the past four years...