Word: ear
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...Captain parks and, leaving Snowdrop in the car, heads toward the dealers on Second and Avenue D. Although he never carries a gun on his shopping expeditions, the Captain has a tough demeanor that commands respect-gritty gray eyes, a diamond glittering in his right ear, and a clean-shaven head looming over a stocky, pig-iron body. He prefers to "score" drugs on Sunday in order to avoid the novice buyers, known in the trade as johns and marks, who are preyed on by "beat artists," pushers who sell low-quality merchandise at premium prices. "The white high school...
Free speech is not at stake in this case, the ACE's protestations notwithstanding. Kirkpatrick, as a leading government official, has complete access to the public eye and ear whenever she or her press office wants it. The attempt by some California regents to punish the students who denounced Kirkpatrick, grossly impolite as they were, is a far graver threat to free expression. Were the ACE truly concerned about civil liberties, it would have stressed those dangers instead...
GOVERNMENTS, like people, don't like to admit they've been wrong--a fact that goes a long way in explaining many of the flabby political justifications that reach the public ear. What is less understandable, however, is why officials would acknowledge former sins only to compound that error by refusing to make amends for their evil ways--as the Supreme Court did last week with its decision involving the water rights of several Southwestern Indian tribes...
...linguistics graduate students gather in the departmental library for one of the two graduate seminars in which Bergvall is currently enrolled--phonetics. The course is designed to give the department's grad students an ear for using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system including English and Greek symbols which can represent any of the approximately 100 sounds in human speech...
...sense-and some have not. Evidently, he has not as he can never find his meals unless someone is kind enough to assist him. Even then he's ungrateful, as behold what he did to me. I only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center of the lot, and when I went to get off threw me over his head with a buck and a bawl...