Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tirelessly from Kaffeeklatsch to luncheon talk to dinner speech in his six-year-old Buick (he has pitted two windshields in sandstorms, added 26,000 miles since the campaign began), likes to stop along the way to talk to field hands, construction workers, just about anyone else who will listen. His specialty is foreign policy, and he has proclaimed that if elected, he will go to India as "a living example of democracy in practice...
Britain's businessmen in recent years have become so used to hearing their efforts excoriated by local politicians and extolled by visiting diplomats that they seldom stop to listen to either. Last week they pricked up their ears when a departing diplomat reversed the process. A successful U.S. businessman for 40 years (metal factory, condensed milk, the Ask Mr. Foster travel agency), grey-haired Francis E. Rogers of New York City went to Britain in 1951 with an American aid mission to spend five years observing British factories. On the eve of his departure for home...
Although both sides stand firmly by their principles, it appears that the Negro, or integration, side is more moderate, and more willing to make some sort of a compromise arrangement than the whites. The leaders of the segregation movement refuse to listen to reason; instead of encouraging moderation they oppose it, even when it seems to be the prevailing sentiment in a given area. At the University of Tennessee, for instance, a group of students requested the administration for premission to form an NAACP chapter; their petition was refused...
...close to a flop. Even the hired TV eye could not blink away the sight of an uninspired audience. Next day the Stevenson camp was blaming the teleprompters and the bad acoustics in the hall. But the Kefauverites were not so charitable, told each other and whoever wanted to listen that Adlai Stevenson had failed to land any solid political punches...
...Joan was all drive and no dreaminess. She had an unshakable faith in her voices and her mission because it could never occur to her to doubt them; hers was a kind of fanatic's certitude, not a heretic's defiance, less a refusal to "reason" or listen or obey than the sheerest incapacity...