Word: earings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the Reagan Administration from the day he took office 17 months ago as the self-proclaimed "vicar" of American foreign policy. He had been worn down by incessant friction with colleagues-much of it self-created-in the unending battle for the President's ear, and he had said he would quit so many times that the threat of resignation had become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction and was fully pre pared to let Haig go. Yet, until the very moment that an obviously strained and tense Reagan...
...only to calm its European allies and the peace movement. Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., is believed to be telling his Politburo colleagues that moderates and pragmatists, mostly in the State Department, are vying with implacable hard liners, boycott in the Pentagon, for Reagan's ear as to what course to take toward the U.S.S.R. Haig is apparently hinting to Dobrynin that Soviet displays of restraint improve the pragmatists' chances...
Besides the clerkships in medicine and surgery, third-year students must now take one-month terms in neurology, obstetrics and gynccology, pediatrics, psychology, and radiology, and two weeks each in orthopedics, dermatology, opthamology, and ear, nose and throat...
Nobody would say Lauda lost his nerve. "Desire" is the right word. In a fearful and fiery 1976 crash in Germany, Lauda's helmet had been ripped off, his left ear burned off, his lungs seared; he was given the last rites. Six weeks later he drove again, and one year later he was champion again. Then Lauda walked away. Why did he come back? "The challenge," he said...
...ear, words beyond numbering zip into the mind and flash a dizzy variety of meaning into the mysterious circuits of knowing. A great many of them bring along not only their meanings but some extra freight-a load of judgment or bias that plays upon the emotions instead of lighting up the understanding. These words deserve careful handling-and minding. They are loaded...