Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statler Hotel one day last week, a heavyset, greying woman rose at the speakers' table, eyed her luncheon audience ap-praisingly through horn-rimmed glasses and began: "You're not going to like anything I say, but I don't care, so long as you listen...
...verse, or sliced prose, or as a bastard offspring of the two. It is, in the long run, speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would too tight that swirls crazily, bumps into a chair (laughter), backs up a bit, and takes off again...
...detailed and technical; it was also secret, and properly so. The man in the admiral's uniform spoke only occasionally, and then in a quiet voice, but the words were to the point, and the mind behind them forceful. Fellow members of the Joint Chiefs had learned to listen carefully to the Navy's Forrest Percival Sherman. The U.S., as the Joint Chiefs already knew, had found a fighting man of rare qualities: the man of action who is also reflective, studious, habitually unruffled...
...help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted his "fancy Dans" gibe at the Navy's admirals...
...ashore. No one had asked the Fathometer operator for a sounding; the radar plotter had never sent his shoalwater reports to the bridge. When the executive officer tried to send a message from the main navigation bridge four decks below, the enlisted "talker" was unable to find anyone to listen...