Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Way. Rosen's old-pro versatility has not come easy. As a prewar bush-leaguer he seemed so hopeless in the field that a Class C manager took one scornful look and said, "Listen, kid, you'd better go home and get yourself a lunch pail. Forget about baseball. You either have it or you don't. You don't." Al ignored the advice...
...gadget has advantages over the old: instead of a handful of eavesdroppers, millions can listen: instead of guarded talk, the callers have unlimited misplaced confidence in their privacy...
...such respectable Republicans as Saltonstall and Flanders, it is painfully clear that McCarthy has been and still is uncomfortably regarded as a card to show when he's calling Democrats traitors and to hide when he's defaming sturdy Republicans. Only when the party is threatened do Republicans listen to the call of the country instead of the coyote from Wisconsin...
...able to show that the secretion of digestive juices in the stomach is affected in the same way. It pays to have an atmosphere of security and quiet at mealtime. Contentment favors normal digestion . . . Sometimes, it is better to eat alone in peace than to sit where one must listen to the complaints of dyspeptics about their food...
...from a female Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett is a pinheaded fungus named Discinella Minutissima...