Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That] theory makes as much sense as if a large department store were to clear its shelves of all commodities except the best-selling lines." If popular acceptance of programs is the measure of good radio, said Siepmann, then all radio is good, because Russians, Britons, Danes and Swedes listen to their radios as much as Americans...
...house and on occasion he carried a Tommy gun. At other times he lied, poached, attempted bribery and fought with his fists. Once, when he attacked the subject of sexual immorality, he draped the crucifix in his church with a cloth so that Christ might not be obliged to listen to his blunt language...
...suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt ("Red Mike") Edson of the 1st Raider Battalion (he later became a two-star general), who used to walk from group to group, yelling: "Listen, all those Japs have that you haven't got is guts...
...marine?" barked the bewildered officer of the deck. "You go aft and sit down till I find out." A few minutes later the second marine-recruit reported aboard and was also sent aft. From the lofty eminence of his seniority, the first man scornfully contemplated the newcomer and snarled: "Listen, boy, you shoulda been in the old Corps...
Before working its anthropology lesson into the action, Broken Arrow views the notorious Apaches through the eyes of the white settlers, building a fearsome picture of their terrorism around an Arizona outpost. A frontiersman (James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride...