Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thing. Day after his dramatic announcement of success, the President hurried into Press Secretary Hagerty's office to listen with newsmen to a playback of his taped message. Ike's amazement was written all over his face as he sat in Hagerty's chair, cocked his ear toward the loudspeaker, heard the eerie sound of his voice coming from 400 miles above the earth. Turning to the reporters, he said: "That's one of the astounding things again in this age of invention. Maybe the next thing they'll do is televise pictures down here...
With the frazzled stare of a gal who wants to wash that fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...
...sheath. But weird as she looked, slack-mouthed, hazel-eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball...
...Ear to Mouth. Back of the hostility of Varner and other white witnesses was the man calling their shots. Prompting from a front-row seat was Alabama's attorney general and Governor-elect, John Patterson, 37. Patterson, at hearing's start, had tried to protest federal meddling in state business, had been gaveled into silence by Vice Chairman Robert G. Storey, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, and principal interrogator for the commission. Thereafter Patterson counseled witnesses into obstinacy...
...himself more seriously than it is possible to take his most recent books. A potentially nice rich kid from O'Hara's Pennsylvania runs short on character, presumably because of the sins of the father and the social disarrangements of his own time. The O'Hara ear for speech has the relentless giveaway of a tape recorder-but it reels on too long. Head and shoulders above the year's run of the mill, but still a semifailure...