Word: ear
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...work out of a White House office and then intervene on behalf of friends to win White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. 'The best politician the Democratic Party has turned up in a long time turns out to have a tin ear,' said a longtime friend. 'He has squandered his moral authority with a lot of this stuff. It leads people to say, "This man isn't really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud." And though this perception is completely wrong in substance, it is enormously damaging...
...such as the Beatles (signed in 1962), who recently spent an unprecedented eight weeks atop the Billboard album charts with their "1" hits compilation. The famously moody art deco hotel had been transformed into a Moroccan disco on three levels, complete with incense, scattered cushions and the sort of ear-splitting techno music middle-aged record executives love to have people think they listen to all the time. The party bulged at the seams with hundreds of middle-aged men in black (many of them also bulging at the seams) and girls (though many were actually mature women in their...
...Hwan seizes the wooden handle of the meat cleaver with a beefy right hand, raising the 21-cm blade up and back past his ear. His left pinkie is on the table, pressed against the edge of a wooden board covered in white cloth; the rounded, stubby finger is missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard...
BONUS SHOT Meningitis vaccinations are agonizing for babies, but they pack an unexpected bonus--fewer ear infections. A Finnish study shows that meningitis vaccines ward off 6% of all ear infections. That may not sound like much, but U.S. children under five come down with 25 million ear infections each year, and the vaccine could prevent 1.5 million of them. That would reduce antibiotic use among kids--and wear and tear on parents...
...assures you that only one of these courses will teach you an approach to learning. Can you guess which one? The reason you can't understand the hot, young foreign student standing in front of you is partly that you still have some Charles River mud stuck in your ear and partly that he is speaking in Babylonian. Almost all of our TFs are similarly gifted in foreign languages (not all of them are gifted in English...