Word: listenerers
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Gripe & Countergripe. Along with the gripe there is the countergripe, or argument. Example by Listener Kahn:
In the past week I have been what I would call a reasonably patient listener to accounts, of the I-can-top-that variety, on how my classmates spent their leave. I have now received the composer's wish--the right to be heard.
To Lady Astor and many another listener last week it was plain that Britons are examining the prospects of peace with greater unity and hope than they have had before. It was also plain that the same heady wine was working elsewhere:
Millions of people will listen in this Saturday to the 44th playing of the most famed game in football, Army v. Navy.* It will be short-waved to U.S. military posts throughout the world. Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are...
The Congressmen, in their haste to have done with the whole thing, brooked no argument. Budget Director Harold D. Smith, trying as a patient civil servant to argue for the Treasury program, found the Ways & Means Committee an impatient listener. (Said one jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and...