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Word: listens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has made so many machine tools that it is called "the Mother of Factories," Nixon told a heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that you can listen to this radio broadcast but not that, and say, 'Oh no, we don't let you hear this because it is slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mir i Druzhba | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Housewives soon learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter nights, families get together like people anywhere to play bridge, drink beer, listen to hi-fi records and talk about the "outside." At Inuvik, Shirley Semmler, daughter of a storekeeper, water skis on the icy Mackenzie River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Great Tomorrow Country | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Grubbe: "I taught more than 7,000 doctors and could never stress enough the dangers inherent in careless handling of X rays. Yet of the 7,000, more than 300 have already died from the effects of radiation. I tried to warn them, but not all of them would listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Martyr | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...advantages. Explains the San Francisco Chronicle's Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason: "It's the club musicians like best. First, the owners don't tell them what to do. They can't-they can't communicate. Second, the audience is best. Why else except to listen would anyone endure these conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Success in a Sewer | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better build a machine that can listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Educator in Orbit | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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