Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet only his own standards of excellence. Russell told his daughter that he never heard the boos of the crowd because he never heard the cheers -- no easy feat in an age pumped up by windbags and Kirkus Reviews. Your commencement speaker hopes that you will turn a deaf ear to empty praise as much as to careless blame, that you will scare yourself with your own severity...
...flurry of proposals dramatizes the renewed clout of organized labor in the corridors of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, is more receptive when labor buzzes in his ear than was his predecessor, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, an avid defender of workers, has replaced the decidedly less sympathetic Utah Republican Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Democrats who are friendly to or received campaign money from the labor movement are in positions to help along the bulk of the business-related legislation. Boasts...
Zeckhauser calls this current stage of expansion a "consolidation phase" in which HRE is "keeping [its] ear to the ground" in the hopes of acquiring more property holdings in Harvard Square. In Zeckhauser's words, Harvard is "landbanking" property for the future--that is, depositing large parcels of commercial property into its real estate portfolio. Landbanked properties are used either as investments or for future academic purposes. Last year, the University acquired several landbanked properties, including The Architects Collaborative Office Building and the O'Brien Family Properties...
...Somerset's protegee, Miss Marion Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley). The diarist not only falls in love but also must struggle hopelessly to find some fresh way of describing his feelings: "Forgive a young man, a young fool, his ardours and ecstasies! I understand now that the world will only give ear to them in the mouth of genius...
...Oval Office in recent years was without such anger. John Kennedy thought TIME got too personal and ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could not get him to compare notes with Nixon. I hope one of them is wrong...