Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feldstein's biggest challenge will be winning the ear of the President. The backgrounds of the two men - one a Bronx-born intellectual, the other an outdoorsy, instinctive Westerner - could not be more different. Reagan too has strongly held opinions on economics, and some Administration policymakers have quit because they were unable to influence the President's self-taught views...
Holmes is being charged only with reckless driving. Police said the truck was on the wrong side of the two-lane highway, but are still uncertain whether the truck overturned onto the Volkswagen or the ear ran into the truck...
This week and last, in Illinois and elsewhere, the harvest intruded on that lush prairie silence. Sitting in a cab 9 ft. above ground, Steffen steered his rumbling 1970 John Deere combine up and down the quarter-mile-long rows. Each ear of corn was picked, shucked and stripped of its hard kernels, and its denuded cob spat back into the field. Steffen, whose 420-acre farm is near Cropsey (pop. 90), thinks he is harvesting his best crops ever: perhaps 25,000 bu. of corn, 9,000 of soybeans. But that is not really good news. "If it goes...
Furthermore, for three days after ushering the gunmen into West Beirut, the Israeli army took no action except firing flares to light up the area. One-sided gunshots were audible to the trained ear. Other than barring journalists' entry, Israeli soldiers stood by idly even after rumors of carnage began to circulate...
...have no doubt that Sharon, at least, must have been cognizant that something was awry in West Beirut. By all reports, he retains tight control over his army; nothing escapes his ear. How could he have not been in constant contact with his troops stationed in the most delicate position? Could they have reported nothing back...