Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courageously turning a deaf ear to rabid nationalists, and ignoring the outlawed Communists who cry out against Yankee imperialism, he pointed to the need for U.S. dollars to put Brazil's economic machine in high gear. He wanted laws that would open up the country to profitable exploitation by foreign capital...
...ARTICLE "WALT & WELT" [TIME, MARCH I] BE A LESSON TO THE BUILDING INDUSTRY TO CUT THE WORD "GRAPH" FROM THEIR DICTIONARIES. AMAZING HOW SUCH AN INNOCUOUS LITTLE WORD GOING INTO THE EAR OF A TIME CORRESPONDENT CAN COME OUT in THE HORRIBLE FORM OF "GRAFT." JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT IS OUR BUSINESS GRAPH LINE WHICH HAS BEEN RISING NOT OUR GRAFT...
Clark Clifford, who has a passion for orderliness and quiet, solved that problem. Too many differences of opinion made it difficult for the boss to make up his mind. He got Mr. Truman's ear. The President began referring Cabinet members to Clifford, and between Cabinet meetings Clifford screened out what he thought the President should not hear. Cabinet members were grateful for this avenue of escape from Steelman's "coordinating." Clifford also set himself up as a barrier between the President and the professional politicians. They were not pleased...
John Steelman, 47, plump, red-faced ex-conciliator of the Labor Department, who always had one formula for conciliating John L. Lewis: "Give in." After Clifford, his rival in the antechamber, Steelman comes nearest to having the boss's ear. He handles labor and economic problems...
...first Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...