Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house in Georgetown, he either rode to work in a department limousine, or walked with little Justice Felix Frankfurter, his onetime Harvard Law School teacher and close friend. In his fifth-floor office in the new State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, he tried not to listen to the criticisms, read key telegrams, listened to briefings, held conferences and with his blue, slightly protuberant eyes, studied the state of his foreign policy...
...listen, cock-ear'd, in a way of wonder...
...Bipartisan Policy. When the committee read off a list of hoodlums and racketeers, Willie admitted cheerfully that he knew almost all of them, from Lucky Luciano on back to Al Capone. Asked who had introduced him to Capone, Willie stared in disbelief, said: "Listen, well-charactered people, you don't need introductions; you just meet automatically." Asked what political clubs he belonged to, he answered simply: "I don't belong to any; I am bipartisan...
...command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been no one to listen to-no Roosevelt, no Churchill, not even a Willkie. We're trying to build something in particles of voices; but we don't want them all to come from New York, Washington and Lake Success...
Yard police said they became wary when 1,000 freshmen spilled from their dormitories into the Yard to listen, but considered the renditions of "Adeste Fidelis," "Noel," "Little Town of Bethlehem," and "Silent Night" were sufficiently good to warrant a non-interference policy...