Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets . . . We drive cars that are not the newest models, and we don't have chicken every Sunday. We haven't had a real family vacation in years-we can't afford one. We listen to good music, we read good books, and when we can manage it, we see an occasional play-maybe once a year . . . We try to set a good example by living in such a manner that both we and our children may learn to live with confusion without ourselves becoming...
...first message, the Secretary of State had frankly warned that the U.S. would have to reconsider its policy of aid to Europe if the Continental neighbors did not unite effectively in their common defense (TIME, Feb. 9). Then he had hurried off abroad to look, talk and listen...
...Windsor-knotted tie who goes by the Tin Pan Alley title of "professional manager." His job is to convince record manufacturers that his publisher's song is headed for the bestseller lists. There is plenty of music for record men to choose from; after a weary week of listening, they are ready to believe that every third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts to plow through the plankton-like mass of material...
...Lyttelton. "He did not behave like a man who sits near the Queen," said Acting Paramount Chief Gomani. "He frowned and was angry before he heard us. He lied when he said our people were so ignorant that they did not understand federation. He was rude. He did not listen to us. We were disappointed, and we must go back to our people and say that the man who sits near the Queen had no time for their chiefs...
Fluent in Spanish and fair in Portuguese, Cabot has the social aplomb, background and wealth that appeal to Latino diplomats. His presence in Caracas was a good sign to Latin American hands that the U.S. was at last willing to listen seriously to Latino complaints about rising U.S. industrial prices adversely affecting their economy...