Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...babies, clean the house and grow old and tiresome. To casual guests at a party or to the patron she hopes will one day claim her permanently, the geisha must be tireless and fascinating, solicitous and flattering, soothing and delightful, ready to make conversation, play a game or listen to pompous discourse at the whim of her customer. "A good geisha," said a member of Kyoto's geisha association last week, "is one who the guests say is good. Not only is the guest always right, but he must always go home knowing...
...which nested in burrows. "Petrels have a smell," said Jim. "You get down on your knees and smell the entrance to a burrow ... well, it's distinctive. You reach your arm in and if you're lucky you'll find a bird or an egg or both.... We would listen for the call at night. The call is in two parts--well, I'd know it if I heard it again...
...understands English well, Chou insisted on reading his answers in mechanical Chinese for an interpreter to translate. The answers themselves were composed so clumsily and delivered so dispiritedly that the onlooker could wonder, vicariously, whether the contempt of Red China's Premier was directed only at his listeners, or also at what he was asking them to listen...
Another local figure with a relevant success-story is Harry Arlanson of Tufts. Arlanson feathered his third season in the neighborhood by herding the Jumbos over the Crimson, 19 to 12 last fall. Reportedly well satisfied, Arlanson said last night he would listen if approached...
...organized. Such notions did not suit Soekarno's old friend and Indonesia's longtime Vice President Mohammed Hatta, whose remedy is to replace Indonesia's multiparty parliamentary government with something more like the U.S. system. Four weeks ago, fed up with Soekarno's refusal to listen to his ideas, respected Mohammed Hatta resigned the vice-presidency...