Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urged the U.S. to be as ready to deplore rightist dictatorships as leftist ones. Kennedy last week hoped impartially that the victims of Castro and Trujillo, "the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, will soon rejoin the society of free men." ¶ Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part of the Latin Americans. Only...
...gate and settle on his own stride," says Sellers. "He's bred for that. Of course there comes a time when we have to get up and run." Instead of going to the whip, Sellers can usually get his horse running by clucking gently in his ear and by pumping his arms and legs in rhythm with the animal's stride...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...blade in his powerful, crab-cracking jaws, seemed to suffer no ill effects. In the country he liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost in the same instant and rolled on his back squirming with apology...
...increased formal training the young men have, Hentoff observed that "it is no longer possible to play by ear." He did not feel that a jazzman studying music would necessarily ruin him for jazz...