Word: earshot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-poverty program was that it could ultimately transform chronic "tax eaters," in Johnson's phrase, to new taxpayers. Even before it received congressional approval, Shriver had started gathering staffers and ideas. "How in the hell do you fight a war on poverty?" he asked everyone within earshot. "What do you do?" Laboring up to 16 hours a day, the anti-poverty warriors were shunted all over the capital, found themselves at one point in the basement morgue of an ancient hospital, at another in what had once been a hotel of shady reputation. Finally, they moved into...
...were forever telling her to knock off the singing and please go skip rope or something. But she persevered, joined the high school glee club and the church choir, later studied voice for seven years at Pomona College. Still, whenever she tuned up, people tended to drift out of earshot, and friends politely suggested that maybe please she should take up knitting or something...
...time, the complete units will make the separate-component-part hi-fi obsolete," claims KLH President Kloss. Perhaps he is overly optimistic, but at least the small-fi has placed great music within earshot of the Great Society...
Diplomats in La Paz tended to believe that the demonstrations were largely directed and engineered by Barrientos. Nevertheless, he does have wide popular appeal among the peasants, who see him as a young and vigorous reformer. He campaigns tirelessly, promises land, food, health and education to all within earshot. How much support he has in the La Paz capital is questionable. His incessant speechifying raises the hackles of some of his fellow generals who fear that he has ambitions to become a Bolivian dictator. Last week army brass were privately demanding that Barrientos share the junta leadership with General Alfredo...
Another much circulated tip is aimed at those interested in psychiatry. Such students, the word is, should not evince any interest in the subject within earshot of medical school walls because schools shy away from their kind on the general principle that "it takes one to know one." What to tell them, this tale continues, is that you are unsure but lean towards "research...