Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Cash. Charlie Rhyne's first view of the law in action came when he was eleven or twelve. "A man who was a member of one of the big families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury...
...composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf Ear...
...announcement from the Kremlin was heavy with meaning to the free world's defenses. The Soviet Union had test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile, and as days went by, Russia's Khrushchev pushed a new form of missile diplomacy, pouring it into every cocked ear at every diplomatic coop that Europe might become "a veritable cemetery," and that the U.S. was "just as vulnerable...
...feasibility of making a hydrogen bomb-Teller for, Bethe against. They had clashed over the security suspension of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer when Teller testified for the AEC and Bethe for Oppenheimer. Now Teller and Bethe were the poles of groups contending for the President's ear on an issue that might make a cold-war turning point...
...wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult, Mme. Récamier became the bosom friend of the detested...