Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Listen. The wind is still...
Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain...
...hope that the television lessons will give a lift to the efforts of the Hungarians in the area, and that all of them will be able to listen," Richards stated...
...ready-made categories, ad infinitum. Loneliness is a narcotic, and like a narcotic we find it very difficult to escape, despite our pain and distaste. The incapacity to read is, of course, only one symptom of the general addition to the self, a single phase of the incapacity to listen either to lecturers or poets, or friends, or lovers. And so he finally writes lyrical ballads to the existential dilemma, or becomes schizophrenic...
...long-moribund Labor Department by 1) keeping hands off in labor disputes so collective bargaining can work (but operating quietly behind the scenes to help it work), and 2) championing such pro-labor proposals as Taft-Hartley revisions, expanded minimum-wage coverage, improved unemployment compensation. His fellow Republicans listen with increased respect since, after diligent Mitchell campaigning, the G.O.P. made heavy inroads in Eastern and Midwestern industrial areas...