Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shooting down 26 Japanese planes, becomes the youngest governor in South Dakota's history this week, and invited everybody to his inauguration: "Come as you are." Easygoing Joe Foss decided to go into politics during a wartime defense-plant tour when he had to adorn platforms and listen to politicians orate...
...Christian and Marxist alike, is a herd of sheep, preyed upon by wolves in sheep's clothing, where crime is the only means of gaining status . . . The modern child ... is turned over by his parents to his age-group with the command that he adjust-or else. He listens to the same radio and TV programs that his playmates listen to; on no account may he pursue an interest of his own choosing-or even daydream about it. While he is told less often than children of past generations to keep quiet, he is denied the priceless boon...
...belonged to one of the neutral countries, I should urge my government, and any other neutral government that might be willing to listen, to take very active steps to persuade both sides simultaneously to abandon the threat of war as an instrument of policy. It may be feared that neutral governments will shrink from a task which is likely to offend the most powerful nations of the world, for there is one matter on which all the powerful nations appear to be agreed, and that is that neutrality is an offense against morality and decency...
...admission by the State Department that it might consider a deal with Red China marks a complete reversal of earlier government policy, Seyla said. The State Department had previously been adamant in refusing to listen to offers of trade...
...State Department had earlier intimated that it would be willing to listen if communist China should propose swapping 35 Chinese students for 57 Americans, including the 11 imprisoned flyers...