Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to Schatz, a Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess," the major gasped. Schatz grabbed a first-aid box and started running toward him but was forced back into the car by Soviet soldiers. It was another hour before a Soviet...
Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...rented a blue American Motors Eagle and headed for Vermont. In a motel in Bennington, he disassembled the .38 and later dumped it, along with his blue windbreaker, into a snowy woods. A week later he called his neighbor Myra Friedman. Goetz sought her help and her ear; he poured out his story in an anxious, confused monologue...
...impounded, Veliotis claims to be content in his luxurious villa, complete with rooftop swimming pool and garden, tucked into the hills overlooking Athens. "I have a very complete life here," says Veliotis, a heavyset man with beetling brows, a pencil mustache and a tiny hearing aid behind his left ear. "I now have the time to do all the things I wanted to do before...
Businessman J. Peter Grace first recommended the improved hearing devices to Reagan. The new aids, made by Starkey Labs Inc., the Minneapolis manufacturer of his old aid, are half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says...