Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play it by ear." Munro said yesterday. If Osode gives the Harvard defense problems, he said. Ric Lacivita, normally a fullback but with previous experience as a one-on-one marker, will move to halfback to contain Osode. Either Lawson Wulsin or Steve Mead will fill in at fullback...
...ready to talk on any subject, without whispering in an aide's ear or thumbing through her notes. She has, some McGovern staffers ruefully admit, perhaps a better grasp of her husband's positions than his own official running mate Sargent Shriver; but then, she has been at it longer than Sarge...
Each agent is connected with Probe Control by a little TV set hidden in a ring or neck pendant, a microphone placed in his teeth and a receiver in his ear-everything indeed but a Captain Midnight magic decoder. Luckily enough, the bad guys never seem to notice when the agent starts chattering to himself or cocks his head to listen to Control Director Burgess Meredith, who still seems to quack the way he did when he played the Penguin on the old Batman series...
Meany continues to take occasional swipes at Nixon, but his hatred of McGovern and what he stands for in American politics is too visceral to be overcome. At 78, Meany is set in his ways, but he also has his ear to the ground. He detects discontent with McGovern among labor's rank and file, and he has skillfully exploited it. Nor does he want to implicate big labor-his big labor-in what he expects to be a disastrous Democratic defeat. Why spend our money, he has said, to "help a political party commit suicide?" Better to drift...
...comparison may seem incongruous, Dillon's approach to his professional world resembles Mystery Writer Dick Francis' to the ambience of horse racing (TIME, May 22). Both authors fairly radiate authenticity born of total immersion in the subject, a mania for getting detail right, and a sympathetic ear for the nuances and cliches of shoptalk...