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Word: listening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to name one name. And his story was also weakened by the fact that he had been using all kinds of differing figures for weeks: first he had said there were 205 disloyal employees in State, then 57, before settling on 80. By demanding a quorum to listen to him, he forced a dragooning of members back to their seats for a night session for the first time in almost five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...have an inescapable responsibility ... As repesentatives of Christian churches, we appeal for a gigantic new effort for peace . . . We urge the governments to enter into negotiations once again and to do everything in their power to bring the present tragic deadlock to an end. This is the hour to listen afresh to the word of God . . .the hour for earnest prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This Is the Hour | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...students could take three-month courses, six nights a week, in anthropology, psychology, music, languages, stenography, drama, mathematics, art. Guest lectures were given by more than 50 of Germany's ablest writers, scientists and politicians. The students soon discovered that Inge wanted them to discuss, not just listen. An anthropology course would start with a talk on racial differences, enter a discussion of the master race theory, and wind up with well-documented proof that no race is superior. U.S. High Commissioner McCloy was impressed. "I think [the Ulm Volkshochschule']" he said, "will reveal why many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Good ... | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

During his long hospitalization, Godfrey spent hours listening to the radio. "Those days we were all talking to the 'ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience.' I decided there wasn't any such audience. There was just one guy or one girl off somewhere listening by themselves. Hell, if they were together, they'd have something better to do than listen to the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Listen and attend, O Best Beloved, for this is the story of how the Red Book got its tale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just So | 2/9/1950 | See Source »

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