Word: earshot
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...setters. Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialites insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind is out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and puck cheeks with studied grace, sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...
...country crime wave. Police believe the suspect, sometimes with accomplices, was responsible for as many as 130 cases of rape and robbery in twelve states. He usually wore a ski mask. Sometimes he and his confederates tied up the victim's boyfriend or husband and left him within earshot while they committed the assault. As the toll mounted, no fewer than 26 law enforcement agencies from Florida to California joined in the investigation...
...Street are lamenting high interest rates, many Americans have come to like them. The small investor who was boasting in the mid-'60s about his killing in the stock market or in the late '70s about his big earnings from real estate is now telling everyone within earshot about the yield on his money-market fund. Last week he was bragging that the money he took out of a savings bank, where it was earning 5.5% interest, was paying a 17% return...
...spoke on a blustery October day to an Irish throng within earshot of the border of Northern Ireland, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are engaged in tribal bloodshed. Now John Paul II, apostle of peace and justice, is himself a victim of terrorism. The killing continues in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. But if his words often go unheeded, the explosion of grief and affection as the Pope lay in a Rome hospital showed the extraordinary impact he has made, not just upon 700 million Catholics but on the world...
Existence today often means escaping from the latest Oscar award acceptance speech only to be trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will...