Word: earful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democratic protests notwithstanding, House Republicans are set to begin debating the impeachment of President Clinton on Friday morning. Republicans turned a deaf ear to Democratic entreaties that it would be inappropriate -- and possibly harmful to U.S. interests and personnel -- to debate the removal of the President in the midst of a military conflict. And that, surprisingly, may have given Democrats an opening to score valuable political points...
...keener after a while; the idea of coming to one's senses takes on new meaning. I pick up a scent that the others identify as that of a tapir, a large, smooth, big-nosed mammal the size of a small cow. An electric blue butterfly flutters by my ear. Mittermeier snags a vine snake, green and camouflaged in its habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life and death. We pass gaping holes in the earth that giant armadillos call home, and the shell of an armadillo that a jaguar called lunch. A microteiid lizard shoots along a palm leaf...
...classical music scene at Harvard just got a little easier on the ear: Harvard students have founded an as-yet unnamed chamber music group featuring some of Harvard's best musicians. The 13-member group, which had its premiere performance last month, will have a quartet of its members performing later today for a Harvard Museum art break, and the group hopes to hold larger concerts on campus next semester...
...turned its victim over and stomped on his face. It was already beaten beyond recognition. One eyeball was out of its socket. Another of his tormentors sliced his ear with a blade. "Let him die slowly," someone said, and the mob laughed...
...imperious CEO began to pride himself on scaring his employees. When Dick Snyder was president of Simon & Schuster, ear protection became a recommended piece of executive equipment. The intensity of Snyder's verbal assaults would surprise even him--but surprise did not stop him. Snyder met his match in the equally fearsome Martin Davis, who became CEO of Simon & Schuster's parent company, Gulf + Western. Meanwhile in the Bronx, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner was taking delight in firing people. He is so paradigmatic of impetuous power (throwing tantrums, bad-mouthing employees in the press, hiring...