Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gathering Weight. That was how it began, for the news had seeped slowly upwards from the least respectable and least responsible papers. With no other way of knowing what was going on, the people who habitually read only the Times and listen to the BBC would not even have guessed at the romance until three weeks ago. Now the great weight of sedate judgment was making itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout...
...Sanders Theater for box seat, so that he could "survey the crop of girls from every angle." "For the first three weeks he learned little about the Odyssey. But after a while he sighed, the objects of his attention "found being beautiful a bore" and he started to listen to the lectures...
Aldrich accepted the recordings after defense counsel Calvin P. Bartlett asserted that the tapes would show differences from the printed transcript. But he has not finally ruled out government objections. He added, after defense and government lawyers agreed, that he would listen to them in private to save time...
Outside the bunkhouse, the Rev. Rudy Hernandez unlimbered his marimba and began to waft La Paloma into the evening air. One by one the men strolled out to listen, and Hernandez' assistant got ready the tracts. The Cottonpatch Crusade was under way in Pecos, Texas...
Before long, the local Catholics were stung to action. Wearing a light sport shirt and black trousers and carrying a heavy cane, Father James Milano of Pecos' Santa Rosa Catholic Church appeared, shouting, "Catholics-don't listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...