Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team out of danger in the big broad pink Mercury he use ta have and then Terry's got such a head of pressure built up, God! he braces his foot against the cage and he just lets it all go and it catches the sheriff right in the ear and Chick had a lotta beer in him so he hardly stops before they get back to the cop station. He just sprayed that guy back and forth. Chick was a hard drinker and wasn't one to puke...
...stands alone before the visitors' table, looking down with defiant, dark eyes. He is a big man, with broad shoulders, hard features, shaved Muslim head hidden by a blue stocking cap. A dark scar runs from his left cheek to his ear, from a "cutting" two years ago. His rust-colored cardigan is open and reveals a ring on a brass chain. Satisfied with the press card, he says, "They look for excuses to play with me. I try not to give them...
...truly a bravura performance. Higgins is a master of the colorful street language heard around Boston. Throughout the novel, without quaintness or self-parody, he is able to sustain long arias of criminal shoptalk. The reason is that he never merely transcribes. Like Salinger and Raymond Chandler, his ear is really for mental processes. All Eddie's friends use the same idiom, but it is always easy to know which one is talking...
William Golding looks like every one's favorite uncle, the kind who pulls silver dollars out of your ear and is al ways just back from Tashkent. It oc curs to the reader, as he inspects Golding's wise and mischievous mug on the dust jacket, that no one has pulled silver dollars out of his ear for a long time. It used...
...weeks, partly through her crayon pictures. Whenever she drew white children, they came out taller than she, whatever their height in real life. Her white children had carefully drawn features and the right number of fingers and toes, while she pictured herself as lacking an eye, or perhaps an ear or an arm. "When I draw a white girl," she explained, "I know she'll be O.K., but with the blacks it's not so O.K." All the same, Ruby herself was O.K.; her strength, Coles discovered, came from her "intact and supporting home...