Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this interest in dissent was not confined to politics alone. The Liberal Club's guests included birth-controllers and disciples of Gandhi, as well as anarchists, communists, Socialists, pacifists, friends of Sacco and Vanzetti, and foes of the Versailles Treaty, Hicks writes, "We would listen to anybody who condemned the status quo and proposed to change...
...Argentine government let 104 university students out of jail last week, completing the release of some 250 students locked up last year for taking part in political demonstrations. Before leaving, the 74 students freed in Buenos Aires had to listen to a finger-wagging lecture by the federal police chief, who assured them that they would not have criminal records. That was understandable: they had never been tried, or even formally charged, but merely held at the disposal of President Juan...
...playing TV games, all panel members agree that the most important knack is to be able to listen. Explains Arlene Francis: "Newcomers on a panel are always too tense to listen well, and sometimes will ask questions that have already been answered." Also, she and her cohorts know from sad experience that if the first contestant is not interesting or gay or entertaining, the show generally does not get off the ground: "Once you get started well, the mood is easy to sustain, but after a bad beginning, you have to fight to recapture your audience...
...millions of consumers stretching from Michigan to Massachusetts believe that regulation at the wellhead does tend to keep prices down. Before the hearings are over, the committee expects to listen to many a formidable argument for regulation...
STRIKE TALK over the guaranteed annual wage in the auto industry is lessening. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther is not adamant on the union's guaranteed-wage plan, says he will listen to other proposals that might be "better or more practical." And with output at a peak, auto companies are anxious to work out some reasonable settlement...