Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having been one of his earliest supporters and one of the few major optimists in the 1948 campaign, Edwards held Harry Truman's ear in the White House. Never one to mince words, she asked him outright to name unprecedented numbers of women to positions in his administration. At her urging, in fact, Truman was on the verge of appointing an Ohio woman judge to the Supreme Court before Chief Justice Fred Vinson nixed the idea because he felt "the boys" wouldn't be able to relax with one another when discussing cases...
...eyes are wide open, perhaps in wonder, perhaps in horror. Now we see the fingers of a second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous jaw typical of non-European...
...spherical pneumococcus bacteria have proved a stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...none other than Joe "He-who-multiflexes-first-multiflexes-best" Restic. He had done some multiflex soul-searching on Sunday, and decided that he was in need of a friendly ear. Having been told that I occasionally like to multiflex myself, he was now--in a move some would term as desperate--seeking my advice. Our conversation multiflexed something like this...
...constant that knits them together is Mamet's ear, which is a precision instrument. He recognizes the shaping force of language-how it is used as a weapon or a shield depending on what a character wishes to convey or conceal...