Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone shattered distance: it is part of nature now. The Atlantic Ocean does not intervene between one's lips in New York City and the ear of a friend in Paris...
...policy decisions of the next four years could turn on such maneuvering for Reagan's ear. As in the past several years, the sharpest domestic debate will be over the federal deficit, and it will begin as soon as the new Congress convenes...
...useless to blindly embrace neoliberalism or to flat-out reject it, for, in fact, neoliberalism as a clearly-defined political creed does not yet exist. What exists is a mindset--apparently an attractive one--that, like Gary Hart, continually whispers "new, new, new, not old, not old" in your ear. What has yet to be determined is the clear-cut political agenda that will accompany the invocation of spiritual rebirth and political renewal...
...hopes that today's Sandpits leaders and their foes in the White House listen to Filed, but given the impulsiveness which seems to characterize all relations in the complicated world of Central American politics, both groups are likely to turn a deal ear Even General Toreros, one of the region's more responsible leaders of late, had trouble following the counsel proffered by Castro It the negotiations for the return of the Canal failed, he promised, there would be notes. "I have only the alternative of crushing them of leading them," he told author Graham Greene "I will not crush...
...days later, while I was leafing through a collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...