Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poof! A puff of smoke and a little and devil on your right shoulder whispers in you ear, "Whaddaya doing, putz. You're two years past your sexual prime and slipping fast; you gonna pass this up, sucker...
Sadat had finished reading the letter, folded it and taken off his glasses when an assistant came into the room and whispered something in his ear. Sadat rose and walked over to me and kissed me on both cheeks. "They have just signed the disengagement agreement at Kilometer 101," he said, referring to the pact that spelled out specific boundaries for both sides. And then he added: "I am today taking off my military uniform?I never expect to wear it again except for ceremonial occasions. Tell [Golda] that is the answer to her letter...
...those voices, the President turned a resolutely deaf ear. He headlined one section of his message NO TIME TO RETREAT. His 1981 accomplishments in slashing taxes and civilian spending while starting a huge military buildup, Reagan boasted, "far exceed anything the skeptics and critics ever dreamed possible just one year ago." The President added: "Our task is to persevere, to stay the course . . . to weather the temporary dislocations and pressures that must inevitably accompany the restoration of national economic, fiscal and military health...
Cynthia Ozick's career went public in 1966 with Trust, an intellectually ambitious, technically challenging first novel about personal and political betrayal. If the clang of metaphorical boiler plate rang in the reader's ear, so did the voice of new talent. Trust remains Ozick's only published novel. Her reputation rests mainly on collections of short fiction: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories and Bloodshed and Three Novellas. In these works, the author's philosophical and social overview narrowed and intensified. She could be outrageously satirical about current styles of New York life...
Here is Evelyn Waugh, "extraordinarily like a loquacious woman, with dinner jacket cut like maternity gown to hide his bulging stomach . . . playing this part of a crochety old character rather deaf, cupping his ear - 'feller's a bit of a Socialist I suspect.' Amusing for about a quarter of an hour." Here is Graham Greene delighted when a bomb from the blitz hits his house, symbolizing not only the end of his estate, but of his marriage; Arthur Koestler, "all antennae and no head," and Novelist Rose Macaulay "looking immensely aged, everything about her having diminished except...