Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty minutes later the party encountered the revolutionary Colonel Diógenes Gil in a car with a civilian chauffeur. Colonel Gil straightway sought the President's ear. The situation, he said, was serious. To avoid bloodshed, he suggested, the President should make him Minister of War. The President was outraged...
...Dewey farm. Dewey replied, with characteristic heavy jocularity, that if so, it was the first work Lowell Thomas had done in 21 years. Commented Scripps-Howard's veteran Tom Stokes: "It was a little hard to imagine either one with a straw lying honestly behind one ear...
Farmyard. But Tom Dewey was not asking anyone to see a straw behind his ear. Next day, when photographers snapped and clicked all over Dapplemere, Dewey firmly set his usual limitations, for Candidate Dewey is very much aware of what the camera has done to U.S. politicos. He or his family would don no overalls, feed no chicks, milk no cows, pitch no hay. In white shirt, neat grey trousers, and brown tie carefully in place though the temperature was 90, Dewey for three hours patiently posed for shots showing him only as a spectator-farmer. Typical authorized shot: Dewey...
...belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). He was also ranked with Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn, an executive whose high-salaried writers are often suspected of improving on the Goldwyn quotations ("They are always biting the hand that lays...
Then three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...