Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flaming Cherub. The discussion groups at Frankfurt's fair grounds on the Kirchentag's second day were broken up into six themes, but by far the biggest drawing card was "People and Politics." Bonn government officials were on hand to listen, and from East Germany came Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke and President Johannes Dieckmann of the East zone's rubber-stamp parliament. While Nuschke fidgeted and nervously massaged his nose, a crowd of 12,000 heard Evangelical Leader Günter Jacob of Cottbus, East Germany describe the sinister magnetism the totalitarian state exerts upon man. Applause...
...loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen to the news. Her big moment ruined, Lovey runs tearfully back to her marble orchard...
...delegation decided against the unit rule, although almost all votes are controlled on the first ballot by Governor Frank Lausche, who will be nominated for President by Gubernatorial Hopeful Mike Di Salle. In a preconvention hedge, Lausche's aides prepared to welcome Harriman campaigners into Ohio this week, listen respectfully to talk about a Harriman-Lausche ticket...
...Kwame Nkrumah, born a Twi tribesman in a mud-hut village, graduate of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University ('39), leader since 1947 of his country's surge to get independence from the British, struck a higher note: "Do not listen to these madmen who talk to you of cocoa and corruption," he argued. "They simply hide the fact that they do not want independence for our country...
...ornate galleries of the Lords Chamber, usually deserted while bores speak to empty seats, were tight-packed with peeresses, dazzling in their fashionable plumage. "Backwoodsmen," who had not taken their seats for an age, limped and hobbled up from the counties to plug in hearing aids and listen to the arguments. Around the steps of the throne, there was a tight gaggle of elder sons who share with members of the Privy Council the right to squat there during sessions...