Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comfortably furnished apartment. He had eaten well (steak and potatoes, chicken and rice), and he had slept "like a blessed one." Faustino Perez, Castro's second in command, had come personally to apologize for the inconvenience. The rebels even supplied a radio so that Fangio might listen to the race. But he preferred not to. "I became a little sentimental," he said. "I did not want to listen because I felt nostalgic." Yet Fangio was also fearful that his life was endangered, not by his abductors but by a clash that might come at any moment between them...
...call of the golden spade yesterday summoned alumni from Boston and New York to begin the second big push of the Program for Harvard College. About 500 area chairmen and captains returned to Cambridge to speak, to watch, and to listen, as the drive for the "thinner cats" began...
...Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road; many less famous women lived in well-kept seclusion with nothing to do but listen for the diurnal rumble of their lovers' carriage wheels as their carriages turned into the gravel drives. When Novelist George Eliot, famed for her indifference to marriage vows, went to live there, the Countess of Cork snapped: "Of course, poor dear. Where else could...
...before its radio went dead its instruments talked in a secret code, and last week the Russians were still taciturn about its coded reports on conditions in space.* But the Explorer, a talkative American working in a published code, was droning away in the clear to all who would listen...
...Bocce; the men, in white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...