Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the Khmer Rouge from entering Phnom-Penh that we are asking for aid," Saukam Khoy said last week. Some of the defending units had no more than six or ten mortar rounds left to repulse the next attack. Young front-line commanders often kept an ear on the radio, hoping for news that the U.S. Congress would change its mind and grant...
...Husband I, thought dead. Husband II murders him, and little Tommy sees the whole thing. Then director Russell positions us at Tommy's innocent head while father and mother yell "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it" over and over and louder and louder into each ear. Russell's tasteless hand-held camera is thrusting and jabbing, commanding us to feel the child's trauma. So of course we feel very little, which perhaps makes sense because Tommy is struck deaf, dumb and blind by the experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed...
...King mixed beneficence with discipline. He could be exceedingly kind to a desert tribesman who sought the King's ear for a petty grievance. But he could also be severe with a junior member of the Saud dynasty who had discredited the royal family by gambling away huge sums of money on the roulette wheels of Monaco or Las Vegas. An aide who once asked Faisal why he did not compliment people who did good work for him received a blunt answer: "It is their duty...
Luis Carrero Blanco, whom Franco had designated "the bridge for the succession." Although respected for his integrity, Arias does not really have Franco's ear and thus finds it hard to control the Cabinet factions. His major innovation-an aperturismo, or opening, of the political process-was to have allowed a spectrum of parties to organize. But because the law in effect gave the Falange power to decide which parties were permissible, the offer failed to attract any new groups...
...apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game of the 1934 championship between St. Louis and Detroit, Medwick was spiked by the Tiger...