Word: listening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax laws. The delegates listen to a parade of speakers decry Communism, Zionism, U.S. foreign policy, Big Government, and politicians who ignore their constituents...
...made a lot of people listen," one demonstrator said as he spread the antinuclear word among lunching brokers. Television and newspapers spread the message too, attracted to the scene by the more than 1000 demonstrators willing to go to N.Y. jails...
PRINCETON 10 PENN 3; Why is Princeton 3-1? Why is Princeton 4-1? DARTMOUTH 14 COLUMBIA 7; Listen here, New Yorkers. Country boys can whip you any day. Friday 3:00 Saturday 10:00 Saturday 3:00 1. Harvard (bye) Harvard 4. Princeton Princeton 5. Dartmouth Ivy League Women's 2. Brown Brown Soccer Championships 7. Penn 3. Yale Yale 6. Cornell
...Ayuh, ayuh. Listen, you moved here four years ago from Central Park West, so forget the rustic impersonations. What I need is, you know somebody we could use for an interview? Typical local, not too smooth, not too dumb...
Without hearing a word of what is being said or shouted, any experienced trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can listen to the hum of voices around him and tell what is happening. An up market has a different pitch from a down market. But old Wall Street hands vividly remember an exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed...