Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace movies, sometimes administered deserved slaps to the royal bottoms. Like her brothers and sisters, Aisha was haughty, impish and possessed with enormous-if sometimes disoriented-drive and energy. The children used to drive their father's councilors to distraction on the phone, imperiously summoning them to listen to their latest phonograph records...
...than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...
...votes and will cost more in the congressional elections next year. But if the ranks of Benson's enemies are large and growing larger, he has, in his determination to stay on the job, one important friend: Dwight Eisenhower, who has sternly resisted tactful suggestions that he should listen to the political winds...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...
...corner of Virginia, the campaign has worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court† and leave nothing but turmoil for Virginia. Dalton's alternative: establish a pupil-placement plan similar to neighboring North Carolina's, admit a few selected Negroes. Under such...