Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the journalist salve might have soothed the University's hurt pride, the team didn't seem to listen. Determined to salvage a mediocre season. It marched determinedly into the stadium to face a highly favored Yale powerhouse. Battling within the shadow of its own goal-posts for 60 minutes, the varsity kept the Bulldog leashed and gained a 0 to 0 tie. The nation's press was unanimous in its praise for the courageous eleven...
...even so, it strikes me as perhaps a little better than the more evil practices that prevail in cities." For himself, said the Prime Minister, he "would prefer any day to be a nomad in the hills than be a member of the stock exchange and sit there and listen to those frightfully ugly noises...
Announcers often dislike commercial cliches as much as listeners do. On Stark's list of pet hates are commercials beginning with "Yes!"; or "y'know, folks . . ." and the phrase "Do it today!" Herlihy detests "Listen!"; having to say, "The supply is limited, so act now!" and "Don't take my word for it, go out and buy a box today." Stark also has a heretical notion that "I can sell just as much of any product in two minutes as I now do in seven." Unfortunately for televiewers, there is little chance that any sponsor will give...
...Church," lamented Crockford's anonymous preface writer, "is unable to attract people to listen to the gospel . . . [Its preaching] is like a safety match, effective only on specially prepared surfaces . . . The multiplication of bishops (fewer clergy and smaller congregations apparently needing more oversight, on the queer principle that smaller armies need more generals) . . . contributes precisely nothing to a remedy . . . Some bishops are still happily learned men, though their learning is seldom relevant to present pressing need . . . Far too many of them bring no intellectual gifts or accomplishments to adorn their episcopal office...
...invades the room, an odor which reminds me of fried fish. Discussions about Freedom are bound to remain sterile, unless we take this word down from its high pedestal and place it on a more humble, concrete basis . . . the freedom to leave one's country, the freedom to listen to any radio program one chooses, and the freedom of reading any book one likes without risk of going to jail...