Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours politics and recriminations were forgotten. Democrats and Republicans drew together in a kind of stunned silence to listen to the latest news and the latest grim briefing on the situation from Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett and Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, the Army's chief planner...
...expected to listen to the argument with sympathy, take the whole proposition under study...
...that this advising should not be concerned merely with academic problems, but with all sides of the student's personality. However, "advising, in a college which emphasizes independence, maturity, and self-education, will not be paternalistic." Students will be made to make their own decisions. Advisers will only listen and provide information...
This discretion seems wise. In the face of the barrages of entertainment fired at them by advertisers, U.S. children have not only retained their sanity and their digestions but kept a deadly critical sense. Millions of them listen to radio and watch television with the same blase attitude with which New York subway riders flip through the sensations recounted in the tabloids. In the last analysis, both the advertiser and the entertainer are at their mercy-with their little fingers still gummy from the last helping of breakfast food, they can turn a button and bring industrial empires tumbling down...
...itself, New York's Republican Representative Daniel A. Reed tried to offer a plan to permit corporations to choose between a flat 55% corporate income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate" to report out only an excess profits tax in time for the lame duck session...