Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alone, friendless and frightened, the old lady would not listen to reason. Only an operation could save her, the doctor had said, but she wanted no operation. Let her die. No, there was no family to call-no one at all, except "the Alliance." Willing to try anything, the doctor called the Educational Alliance on Jefferson Street in Manhattan's lower East Side...
Last week, far from shellshocked, but obviously aware that it was dealing with high explosives, the Supreme Court settled back to listen to three days of argument on the U.S.'s sharpest social issue: segregation of Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of 17 states, and is legal, if local districts want it, in four others.* Before the court were cases from four states (South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas) and the District of Columbia. The cases varied in detail, but they added up to a carefully coordinated effort by the National Association...
...Student Council point out that very few students now avail themselves of the hours from 1 to 4 for entertaining women. This is all the more reason for keeping that time of day free for women to enter the Houses. Many of those students who study, talk, or listen to records with women early in the afternoon do so because their own particular schedules prevent them from doing so conveniently at any other time. The few women who come into the Houses at that period cause no disturbance to other students and could hardly be thought of as a disruptive...
...sure that many students will agree that the weekday afternoons are the most sensible and satisfactory tome for the entertainment of women guests. This is the time when beau and belle can study together. Listen to Beethoven play cards sit by the five and relax to no one's detriment. Cutting out permissions from 1 to 4 seems to show vengeful spite on the part of the faculty and a cowardly betrayal on the part of the Student Council...
When the Communists tried to indoctrinate him in a Chungking prison, Missionary Stockwell noticed that it did little good to refuse to listen to their arguments. Those who did so were simply chained and beaten. Accordingly, he pretended to give serious thought to the prison course for the re-education of "counter-revolutionaries." Because he seemed to be paying close attention to his questioners, he was never tortured, or even manhandled. "I told them," he said, "that I could never agree to their dialectical materialism when it conflicted with my own Christian concepts, and the Communists said they didn...