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Word: listening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, a man who could use the English language like a whip and was, in the words of his latest biographer, John Middleton Murry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conjured Spirit | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Broady was a man of unlimited interests, according to Emmanuel J. Rouseck, a vice president of the Wildenstein Gallery, one of the world's topflight dealers in international art. For five months Rouseck paid Broady $150 a week to listen in on the conversations (in four languages) of Dr. Rudolph Heinemann, an eminent art buyer. For months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Line Was Very Busy | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...remembered the long, workless summers when his father, deafened by years near the roaring "shaker" screens, would get him to listen for the whistle that was the call back to the mines. If it blew, there would be work-and singing in the Travis house that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wild Birds Do Whistle | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...weekend guide to fun and frolic, Weekday bounces around all day long (10:156 p.m.), five days a week (Mon.-Fri.). Its appeal to housewives, mothers, matrons and maids is contained in the show's opening lines: "Don't stop! Don't look! Listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Woman's Home Companion | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...maintenance worker, was also affected by the services: "One night I seen a vision . . . right on the bulkhead there in the jail." As for denying prisoners their rights, said counsel for the evangelists: "They can put their coats over their heads if they don't want to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Captive Audience | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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