Word: eared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idiot was Tyson. The former champ and eternal bully, having already lost the first two rounds, decided to retaliate for an accidental head-butting cut over his eye by biting part of Holyfield's right ear off with 40 seconds left in the third round. The reigning champ jumped up in pain and walked away in anger, blood streaming from the ear. Tyson then ran after Holyfield and shoved him in the back before referee Mills Lane intervened. During an ensuing four-minute delay, a physician examined Holyfield and determined that he could continue, while Lane deducted 2 points from...
Tyson, who obviously had "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner," said afterward, "He has a cut on his ear, and he didn't want to fight. Regardless of what I did, he had been butting for two fights. I addressed it in the ring...What else could I do?" Holyfield, who was taken to Valley Hospital after the fight to surgically repair the ear, addressed Tyson by saying "I truly believe fear itself causes people to do the easy thing. The quickest way was to get out. If you think you can whup...
...Timothy McVeigh is no longer the sweet kid they want to remember... While Timothy McVeigh has had the benefit of his parents asking for his life, the victims of his crimes had no one... And even if someone had pleaded for them, Timothy McVeigh would have turned a deaf ear." In his chair, McVeigh stared back at Wilkinson. He had long ceased trying to be friendly...
BETTER WITH BREAST MILK Breast-fed babies are about half as likely to develop ear infections or diarrhea as those on formula. A mix of both also confers protection, but less...
...pieces of the novel don't really hang together. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories. The first is lazy, easy, short--no more than a dozen pages--an ear-perfect comedy routine of the ancient, comfortable insults that men use to get through a day of work. Virgil Caudill, in his early 30s, is laboring his way up to foreman on the Rocksalt, Ky., garbage-collecting crew. He and his pals jaw away at one another about an almighty hangover one of them has shown up with, about a flashy woman...