Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...briefings, principally from his aide, Colonel Randall, or from Ralph Moore, a personal secretary brought along from Detroit. Early in his Pentagon career, Engine Charlie learned, he once reported, that "the people around here are always briefing you. They do it for at least eight hours a day. You listen to memos being read about how much of this or how much of that, but so far very little of it contains the information I seek...
...Modern Woman a Failure?" So read the program topic at a diocesan conference of Roman Catholic women in Boston last week, and some 1,500 women turned out to listen...
...years at Panmunjom, American diplomats should have learned to confer with Communists without appeasing them the least bit. And such a conference is an honorable way, in diplomatic language, for Russia to take the strain off Germany, Austria, and important parts of the cold war battlefield. The U.S. might listen to an old hand like Sir Winston. He has been dealing successfully with Communists for a long time...
...Foster Dulles, accompanied by Harold Stassen, began a 20-day flying, fact-finding tour of the area. Dulles emphasized as he left the U.S.: "I shall bring with me no specific plans or programs, nor do I intend to ask the governments I visit for any decisions. I shall listen intently...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...