Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President: ¶ Performed a painful (for him) presidential duty: accompanied his wife to the opening concert of the National Symphony Orchestra. Ike's musical tastes are simple. He shares Harry Truman's fondness for piano music, and likes to listen to authentic hillbilly ballads, but, like many another American male, he has almost no interest in symphonic music. ¶ Despite an increasing sensitivity to public criticism of his golfing, played his first round of golf in five weeks-on the order of his doctor, who felt that Ike was not getting enough exercise. ¶ Spent...
...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...
...Dave Dickenson's first marriage, burst upon the scene, glared at reporters and photographers and demanded: "When are you going to Hollywood, Pop? . . . You'll bring Ed nothing but harm by talking to all these folks and having your picture took." Bessie protested: "Don't listen to him, Dave." But Dave Dickenson was old and tired. "Bessie." he said, "the whole thing's got me tore up. I'm easy wrecked, and I can't stand...
...with questioning the now triumphant Chinese, who laughed in their compounds, "Where are the esteemed explainers? Do take us to see them." Meanwhile, all five members of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission argued the question: Should they force the North Koreans, by tear gas, bullet and bayonet, to listen to the Communist explainers, and thus break the deadlock...
Explainer (smiling): Please listen. We know that you have suffered greatly. We also know that your father and mother are waiting to welcome you back. We know that you have been oppressed. We are prepared to forgive you for whatever activities you may have engaged in against the people. When you decide to go home, just go out that door. (He points to the "China door...