Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesmen, fell to the ground. Five accomplices of the assassin fired into the roof of the mosque, and the crowd of worshipers stampeded. (The microphones of Radio Jerusalem in the mosque were connected, carrying the sound of the shots to thousands who had tuned in to listen to the prayers.) Abdullah's body was trampled in the panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according to one report, placed the gun to his right temple and shot himself; according to another...
...King, Baudouin will continue to do his chores, with his life even more carefully circumscribed: he will sign state documents, listen interestedly but noncommittally to politicians' special pleas, deliver speeches carefully edited by others. The Belgian constitution states that "no Royal Act is valid unless countersigned by a cabinet minister." Baudouin has shown no sign of wishing to break out of this constitutional hammer lock, or of wanting to grow bigger than a Premier...
Lamont's special electrical set-up facilitates recording. The microphone on Emmanuel's desk can be seen above. The recording equipment was placed in the booth to the left of the lower entrance to the library. Many students entering Lamont stopped to listen...
...Music Box. In 1915 he wrote a historic memo to his boss. Experiments had already proved that wireless could broadcast speech as well as signals,* but since anybody could "listen in" on such messages, the wireless companies thought the lack of privacy robbed radiotelephony of any commercial value. Sarnoff realized its possibilities. In his memo, he proposed to build a "Radio Music Box ... to bring music into the house by wireless . . . Receiving lectures at home can be made perfectly audible; also events of national importance can be simultaneously announced and received." In the turmoil of World War I, Sarnoff...
...reporter, Thurber registered countless impressions that he could not have gotten into any newspaper. These were filed away in his memory, and he began working them into enchanting monologues for the amusement of his friends. In the '20s and '30s, to sit with drink in hand and listen to Jim Thurber off on a free-association talking marathon was an indescribable pleasure...