Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vega. Jim trudges through the snow to his Jeep and connects an extension cord to the plug sticking out of the grille, starting a heater which will keep the engine warm all night. Without heat, the engine freezes tight in the bitter-cold thin mountain air. Jim puts his ear to the metal hood and stays very still, listening for the sounds that will tell him the heater is working. He knows that unless he is careful, he will not ski tomorrow, and he wants to, very much...
...individual instruments with the orchestra as a whole. The dreamy forest of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the lightness of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bohemian flavor of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G were all pleasing to the ear and mind. The technical performance of the musicians--particularly Roy Kogan's solo in the Saint-Saens concerto--was also fine. The Dvorak ended the concert with confidence, power and skill...
...demand some kind of balancing. But the odds are that behind the control there is more control. Her husband, a tall, slim fellow who puts a lot of emotion into his conversation and his gestures and who is forever touching Cheryl on the arm or smooching her behind the ear, says: "She really is what you see. There is no worm in this apple...
...little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard: "By using footnotes judiciously you can fill your reader in on general information he lacks, satisfy his curiosity about fine points, whisper delicious tidbits in his ear, and share with him an occasional small frolic." But banned are such standard and numbing footnote fare as ed. cit., loc. cit., op. cit., idem and ibid...
...other hand, Fisher has had the ear of the director - general of the Israeli foreign ministry, Ephraim Evron, who is rumored to be a leading candidate to be the next Israeli ambassador...