Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towns first, then the villages, then out by powered boats along the bayous. They had been carefully briefed (with U.S. assistance). No French were anywhere to be seen, and no mention was made of the absentee chief of state, Bao Dai. Communist agents had urged villagers not to listen to Diem's Nationalist talk, not to accept his food parcels, not to put their fish on the market, thereby forcing prices up. Yet Diem's confident beginning soon showed remarkable gains. The Hoa Hao sect, outnumbered, lay quiet. Out of the swamps came 1,000 deserters from...
TALK about selling America short! The prize exhibit on this score is the testimony of some of those who are opposing renewal of the Trade Agreements Act at the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee. To listen to these gentlemen, this country is just about washed up. Foreign competition has our boasted industry on the ropes, and the coup de grâce will be administered if Congress extends the act under which we negotiate tariff bargains with other nations. This sort of defeatism has been heard from other groups opposing the bill. To judge by such talk, this...
...things from America." The conversation proceeded in generalities. Each time I tried to ask a question about living canditions or politics they ignored it and kept repeating "peace" and "friendship" and "great things from America." The Mullers would not let us leave. They wanted me to sit there and listen to them sadly mouthing phrases over and over again, evidently hoping that I understood what they wanted to say and could...
...generally approve of these odd balls she goes out with," grumps brother Kell, who is still national sculling champion and works for his father's company between workouts on the Schuylkill. "I wish she would go out with the more athletic type. But she doesn't listen to me anymore." Some of Grace's admirers fear that M-G-M may do to her what the studio did to Deborah Kerr-lash her down to "lady" roles and keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign...
John T. Flynn, who broadcasts the radio program, "Stop, Look, and Listen" over Mutual Broadcasting System, will speak to the Conservative League tonight on "The Roots of Socialist Bias in American Colleges...