Word: eared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things run in families besides blond hair and bad teeth. A bent for politics, for instance, or aft ear for music, or a genius for making money. Richard Petty, 30, of Level Cross, N.C., was born with a silver spanner wrench in his mouth...
Charging that the Administration has consistently turned a deaf ear to the concerted advice of its military leaders, the Senate subcommittee said that as a result the U.S. has failed to mount "a systematic, timely and hard-hitting, integrated air campaign against the vital North Viet Nam targets. This policy has not done the job and has been contrary to the best military judgment...
...Army drum and bugle corps blared an ear-splitting fanfare, the Navy Band came in on cue, and an Army detachment fired a 21-gun salute. Iran's Shahanshah (King of Kings), His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, was properly impressed by the pomp, but his visit to Washington last week was no pleasure trip. At the very first opportunity he and his old friend Lyndon Johnson got down to some blunt business...
Pritchett, who has written about Spain, Latin America and the U.S., relishes foreign lands, is at ease on many social levels, and has a keen ear for class. Though no Irishman will be found to admit it, all this qualifies Pritchett to be the best historian of Dublin since James Joyce-who was, of course, a Dubliner, though he scraped its mud off his boots at 22 and returned but twice in the rest of his life...
...Hanger" sees his talent only as a means for buying new and shiny presents for his two loves. In the end, he loses the girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with a fine ear for adolescent patois. Author Matthews, 42, who teaches English at Ohio University, offers something of a literary atavism: a story about pure innocence that encounters pure evil and couldn't care less...