Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate majority leader in a Republican Administration, the public began to see a new Taft. The nation which had overturned the Fair Deal to elect Dwight Eisenhower was ready to listen, at least with half an ear. There sprang up the hope that Taft and Eisenhower between them would evolve a foreign policy and a policy of national defense, a domestic policy and, indeed, a reconstructed and truly American idealism to which the nation could rally. This hope began to turn Taft into a popular figure. Whatever suffering they brought to him as a man, Taft's last...
...only the deputies of his Christian Democratic Party seemed even to listen to the Premier's plea. Togliatti buried his nose in a picture magazine. The opposition demanded the vote. By a margin of 19 votes-282 to 263, with 37 center deputies abstaining-the Chamber rejected Alcide de Gasperi's proposed cabinet and propelled Italy into her worst political crisis since the war. Only once before in 31 years had an Italian Parliament forced a Premier to resign. His name was Luigi Facta, and the man who soon succeeded him was Benito Mussolini...
Backed by his ambitious and unpopular vice president, Clark Frasier, Geographer Freeman ordered his professors around as they had never been ordered around before. A gruff, stubborn man, he refused to listen to their complaints, once bluntly told them to stop flunking students lest enrollment drop. As the months passed, professors began to seethe. But it was not until they hit upon the strange case of the athletic director's unearned M.Ed, that they openly revolted...
They played for anybody who would listen, often without pay, and soon hit on the idea of lecture-concerts. Since its Colorado debut, the LaSalle has given 150 of them, and as many regular concerts. Last academic year it played for the public schools in Colorado Springs, and soon found students dragging their parents to evening concerts. Now the members of the group are local celebrities; they are stopped on the streets by autograph hunters...
Since the arrests began, refugees report that attendance has tripled at Shanghai's seven Catholic churches. There have been stories, too, of high personal courage. When the Communists called a meeting of Catholics in one Shanghai parish to listen to a series of tirades against an arrested priest, a woman rose and shouted: "We are told our priests are bad. I think it's the Communists...