Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Listens? U.S. officials have estimated the audience at around 100 million, but this figure is little more than a wild guess. In Belgium, only an estimated 1,000 people tune in on the Voice regularly. Most Scandinavians, if they listen to foreign broadcasts at all, prefer the BBC, which built up an excellent reputation broadcasting to Europe in the days of the Nazi occupation. In Germany, however, together with U.S. libraries and newspapers, the Voice has a wide audience. According to recent polls, 41% of the U.S. Zone's population listen to the Voice regularly or occasionally; most seem...
...devised a more effective way of fighting the Voice: the Communists are trying gradually to do away with radio receiving sets, instead distribute loudspeakers without dials, to which programs are piped from government controls known as "radiofication stations." Rumanians who still have pre-radiofication sets (about 300,000) listen to the Voice, usually in groups, with lookouts against police posted at doors and windows. A Rumanian refugee in Turkey estimates that even seven out of ten Communists listen to the Voice, not, as he carefully explained, "because they are bad Communists, but because they are apprehensive Communists...
...influence all over the world is furnished by the letters which reach Voice headquarters in New York (about 15,000 a month). One of the most touching in recent mail came from a Munich girl named Ursula, who wrote: "I have a great need to talk to someone . . . Please listen, you who live in a country where everything is so well ordered and yet so free. Will you understand me? Or will you laugh at these thoughts of a 17-year-old girl? Tell me, why are we Germans never as free as other people? Are we so different from...
Last week the pilots could listen to their motors all they liked. There was no sound to break the stillness of the clear New Zealand air but the occasional backfire of a twin-engined bomber, the clap of autumn thunder or the scream of a siren. Jimmy Duncan, 59, had retired. There was no truth whatever, he roared in parting, in the story that he had been offered a job as a one-man public-address system. "Perhaps," said Jimmy, reflectively, "I'll raise cabbages...
...school system's spring catalogue of in-service courses for teachers. "Are you interested in how you look . . .? Would you care to glimpse some of the newest fashions in clothes? Of hair styles becoming to different types . . .? Does your voice have that quality that makes pupils want to listen...