Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead to war. Part of the problem is that large segments of the European body politic have gone limp; much public opinion and political leadership too seem to be turning naive or neurotic, or both. The U.S. has not helped by responding with a loud voice and a tin ear. Before President Reagan's widely hailed speech last week, his bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric and willful insensitivity even to legitimate Western European concerns often made it easier for Leonid Brezhnev to find an audience for his siren's song...
...reporter, who said Haig had been subjected to nine months of "guerrilla warfare" from inside the White House. Frustrated by the story, Reagan told reporters: "I could appeal to your patriotism." At his press conference, he lamented that sometimes "the District of Columbia is one gigantic ear" and added: "I think it behooves all of us to recognize that every word that is uttered here in Washington winds up, by way of ambassadors and embassies, in all the other countries of the world. And we should reflect on whether it's going to aid in what...
DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process...
...outfit of red and green-the colors of the Welsh flag-Diana responded warmly to the cheering crowds in Rhyl. At one point, the tiny voice of Simon Edwin, 7, caught her ear. "My dad says give us a kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
...with its 730,000 circulation, has to appeal not only to its most intelligent readers but to "quite different people-the old mass- vs.-class editor's problem." But mass vs. class makes a poor defense in the case of the Post's gossip column called the "Ear," which ran in the Washington Star until that paper folded last August. It is so full of innuendo, knowledgeable references to a lot of people who are not household names and condescending intimacy toward the well-known that the masses would need a decoder to follow...