Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news about Moore's novel is that it contains a splendid portrait of a priest, whose line of talk demonstrates that the author still has an infallible ear for the speech of the clerics who educated him back in Belfast. The good father in Cold Heaven serves to redeem Moore's cast of otherwise lackluster characters. His name is Monsignor Cassidy. Bless him, he is the only Irishman...
...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...
...farm in northwestern Illinois. Says Jim Swise, who helps run Block's farm: "Some of this corn is brown all the way up to the tassel. Corn just doesn't pollinate when it's 100°. Some of it didn't even put out an ear shoot...
Newer and lesser-known names are rising to prominence. One is Fred Iklé, 58, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a scholarly, low-voiced, pinstripe hawk who favors putting maximum pressure on the Sandinista regime. He has the ear of Weinberger, who according to Pentagon colleagues has been too preoccupied with budget matters and congressional relations to devote much personal attention to Central America. The Secretary is believed to allow Iklé and Deputy Assistant Secretary Nestor Sanchez to shape the Pentagon position that Weinberger presents at interagency meetings...
...Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from ear to ear at the marvel of it all. Had Reynolds been around for his own funeral services, he surely would have displayed the same amusement and asked the same question: "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing...