Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kerensky, then 35, skittishly mistaking a few stray shots in the courtyard outside his palace office for the beginning of a counterrevolution, leaps to the windowsill and bellows hoarsely: "Stations everyone! . . . Listen to me-I, Kerensky, am speaking to you, Kerensky is speaking to you! Defend your freedom and the revolution . . . Stations everyone...
...ought to have the courtesy to stay here and listen to me." roared Corsi. "All the patriotism in America does not reside in you and Mr. McLeod." Jenner, halfway out of the room, turned back to shout: "I'll put my loyalty against yours any time, Mr. Corsi...
Shamed by her performance, Odia followed her. "After I cut off her nose," he told the police, "she begged forgiveness and asked me not to report the matter to the police, but I refused to listen." When the police reached Odia's hut, they found that Naji had hanged herself. She had been faithful, after her own fashion...
When it came time to work up her winter cruise collection, Claire McCardell started using the same loose lines. Geiss tried to steer her off, arguing that the model had been copied to death. But Claire would not listen. Result: Geiss lost all that he had made on the Monastic dress and, on the verge of a nervous collapse, closed up shop...
...record on. Turn the volume up. Close the door. Listen...