Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran, Secretary of State Dulles sent an oil engineer, Herbert Hoover Jr., 50, son of the ex-President, to sound out prospects for a settlement of the British-Iranian oil wrangle. Hoover himself will not do any negotiating. His assignment is to look, listen and report back to Dulles...
...want to go to Taiwan. I don't want to listen to what you have...
...first press conference. For two hours, coolly, he sought to allay U.N. fears that the" P.W.s would be coerced by Communist "explainers" into going back to their Communist homelands. The P.W.s would have to go to the explanation huts, he said, "but how do you make a man listen...
...newsmen voiced specific U.N. worries. How long would each explanation session last? "I think we can ask the P.W.s to listen for five or ten minutes." Would P.W.s have to take more than one explanation? He did not think it possible. Would the 90-day explanation period be lengthened, as the Communists demanded? Not unless both sides agreed. (The U.N. does not.) Could his men stop a breakout? Yes, but "with terrible slaughter." Would he stop...
...trouble with the pedagogues, Woodring says, is that they started out as reformers and ended up as dogmatists. They now not only refuse to listen to their critics, they also brook no disagreement among themselves. "An examination of the professional journals...quickly reveals that...any real disagreement on fundamental issues is never tolerated...A teacher may read dozens of such journals without finding a single article which questions the validity of pragmatic principles." As a result, says Woodring, today's teachers seldom realize what a distorted set of principles they hold. Items...