Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remain in school during that time, there is no competition for students' interest such as occurs during the afternoon. And there are few students in high school or grade school who do not welcome a chance to escape school, even if only to take up a different book and listen to a different teacher...
...months that the only solution for their economic plight is to cut loose from the U.S. and trade with Russia. The British government and many Britons know that this is a trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany, all cocked an ear to Moscow. In West Germany's Bundestag, the Foreign...
Revived on Broadway for a two-week brushup before opening at Paris' international Exposition of the Arts next month, Four Saints got a brilliant production, with Composer-Critic Thomson himself conducting. Like some abstract paintings, it was pretty to look at-and in this case agreeable to listen to-even though it made no sense...
Wrote President Truman: "I never read or listen to Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler, George Sokolsky or John O'Donnell, or any of the liars for the simple reason that it just stirs you up for no good purpose." Added O'Donnell, with his usual choleric pride; "After all, when you have won against such professional, high-grade, adroit and skillful liars as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, you shouldn't be lured into controversy by clumsy amateur insulters...
...said. "Listen, these guys may come any minute. They told me they might come. Why don't you try the Maine delegation. They need another delegate...