Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predominantly Tory council refused to listen...
...Hills. At one Wyoming whistle stop, he reminded a little crowd that Wyoming was the first state to give the women the right to vote. Said Truman: "Can you imagine what some of the stuffy reactionary Easterners had to say? Listen-listen to this-you will like this, you will want to remember it. The editor of a prominent magazine* published in New York said: 'This unblushing female socialism defies alike the Apostles and the Prophets.' The editor said: 'Nothing could be more anti-biblical than letting women vote.' So you see that...
...people's hope for aid from America, however, has been weakened. In their camouflaged forest bunkers the U.P.A. men listen to the Voice of America. "Sometimes it drives them crazy," said the Ukrainian. "For example, when your Secretary of State says that the U.S. does not intend to undermine the Soviet government. When we hear things like that from America, we clutch our heads in horror . . . My people say to me: 'The Soviet Union has a complete plan for the whole world. And the United States?What plans does it have for eastern Europe...
...Coca-Cola." At his first stop, on the Via Santa Marta, Signor Pretti made a few cheerful remarks, straightened a Coke sign on the wall and departed. At the Zi' Cori, a tiny refreshment room, Pretti wiped the dust from the red Coca-Cola disc, stopped to listen to the woes of the proprietress' daughter: her fiancé had been called to arms, and in order to persuade the Blessed Virgin to keep the young man from harm, the girl had-as a special sacrifice-given up her daily quota of a dozen Cokes. "She has become...
...MacLeans to listen to insolent beggars," replied the local chieftain, Lachlan MacLean, but, he added, if the Spaniard would lend him 100 men-at-arms, he could have all the food he liked-provided he paid...