Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of a strong lead from Shultz, the President's ear has been captured by right-wing advisers such as Clark and Weinberger. Even on Middle East policy, Shultz is in some danger of being upstaged. The very pro-Israel Kirkpatrick departed Saturday on a trip of her own to Israel, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, from which she will return on March 26, doubtless with some strongly worded advice for Reagan...
...appalling that the Jews, who for hundreds of years have been the victims of the worst atrocities, turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the events in the Sabra and Shatila camps. However, we are forgetting that the Christian Phalangists carried out the massacre...
...manage to be topical without sounding like every other pundit; he can venture into quirky subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats, yet he is quicker to offer a correction, or to let a target answer back, than almost any other eminent columnist...
...audition to show that I could speak the language well enough to play the role," says Streep, who refreshed her knowledge of French with courses and by listening to tapes of a Polish-born Frenchwoman. "It actually worked out very well. I found that to a French ear, an American accent sounds remarkably like a Polish one. So to the French, I sound just like a Polish woman trying to learn to speak their language...
...such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA will be sending physician-astronauts on the next three shuttle flights. They will study the relationship between the eyes and inner-ear system, and the effects on the body of inertia and weightlessness...