Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Through Channels. The battle was frequently bitter, always uphill. At first, the Navy was coolly indifferent, more interested in relaxing from the last war than preparing for a new one. Rickover badgered his superiors until they began to listen, slowly working his way up through Pentagon channels. By 1947, Rickover had convinced Admiral Chester Nimitz; the Navy declared an atomic submarine "militarily desirable...
...Spanish grammars and Shakespeare. But for William Johnson, free man of color who hired white help on his farm and had many white well-wishers, there was still a line which he could never cross. Even when he decided to hear a famous visiting Methodist preacher, he had to listen from outside the church...
Hans Kohn must be used to teaching in isolation. He first taught in a Russian prison camp where "people were so bored they were willing to listen." Later he spent 15 years teaching the girls at secluded Smith College in Northampton...
...fool could hit me"), but fearlessly glared down armed rustlers whom he caught stealing cattle with the Matador's famed "V" brand. He even glared down President Theodore Roosevelt during a conference, told him: "You promised me 20 minutes and then did all the talking. Now you listen...
Fresh Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...