Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back-country argot and his challenges to the Establishment produce more fun than the position papers and maneuverings of his opponents. And once you get to him, he is the most accessible and talkative man in the field." The Governor's deafness in one ear seems an obstacle in interviewing him. Says Kane: "You find out that he hears what he wants to hear. I talked to him one day in his motel. He was across the room, shaving, when I asked him what it would take to get him out of the presidential race. I feared he would...
...steel-knobbed umbrellas can be wrestled from the grasp of a struggling victim and turned against him. Sprays, for all their sophistication, have a nasty and altogether self-defeating tendency to blow back in the user's face. There is even a drawback to "Super Sound," an ear-piercing air horn attached to an aerosol can and designed to summon help while startling attackers. It can damage the hearing of mugger and muggee alike...
...antiquities unearthed during the Cultural Revolution has been organized. The most spectacular pieces in the collection are the jade burial suits of a prince who died in 113 B.C. and his wife. "Well, you wouldn't walk around in that," observes Nixon. When he notices a pair of ear stoppers used by the emperor to keep from hearing criticism, the President says: "Give me a pair of those." Nixon is in the Forbidden City, but he makes it seem as if he were still back home in San Clemente, Key Biscayne or any place else he travels...
...only when my epitaph is readied," he once mused, "they will say: Here is Walter Winchell-with his ear to the ground-as usual." Nobody, alas, was quite so piquant when Mrs. Winchell's little boy Walter, as he liked to style himself, died last week...
Engel said that there have been numerous articles in the Review concerned with social issues. He said that because the Review is read and respected in legal circles, it provides "an opportunity for somebody reasonably young to have the ear of somebody in a position of power...