Word: ear
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...Sure, it’s not often a formula for success, but when it works—and you seem to admit it works for the Gallaghers and Co.—it works wonders, and has the all-too-thrilling effect of forcing the listener’s ear to reinvestigate the sounds that made the originals so fresh and gripping...
Step Two: For the next three months, Larry Summers gets to do his job without pickets hurled at his face, epithets shouted in his ear, or applications of tar and feathers. From now until the semester ends, Summers gets the chance to prove his seriousness about his pledge to “temper my words and actions in ways that…help us work together more harmoniously.” He gets a fresh start to deal with the Faculty—to listen to their ideas and concerns. Success does not mean Summers never disagrees with a professor...
...unfair?" he says, in reply to a question. "I've already been set back in life with the loss of my limbs. Why would I want to hurt myself more?" In his first two weeks at Walter Reed, psychiatrists and psychologists poured through Bozik's door, offering a sympathetic ear. They don't stop by anymore; Bozik has convinced them that he doesn't need them...
...blown into the air, the force literally ripping off her clothes and scorching her upper body. Shrapnel put a hole in her left leg the size of a tennis ball. Bits of the burgundy plastic caf table and metal from the blast shot into her head, tearing her left ear 80% off. She remembers thinking, "Wrong place, wrong time...
Always the Californian, Jessica L. Jones ’06 will go out on her porch overlooking the Pacific every morning and throw her hands up in the air, yoga-style, embracing the day with vigor and ear-to-ear grins. She’ll drive a bright red convertible with the top down to an investment banking job, where she’ll keep her male inferiors snugly subdued under her pointy-toed shoe...