Word: earshot
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With the jury either out of the courtroom or beyond earshot, the judicial colloquy was astonishingly frank. Weary of the angry wrangles between the defense counsel and prosecutors, the blunt Sirica mused at one point: "Maybe I shouldn't say what is on my mind." But he did. Staring sternly at former Attorney General John Mitchell, a defendant, Sirica said of the Nixon aides who had plotted to bug Democratic National Headquarters at meetings in Mitchell's office: "It's too bad that Mr. Mitchell didn't say: 'Throw them out of here. Get them...
...suggestion in "Revolt Against Rape" [July 22] that women in danger should scream should be carried one step further. Instead of screaming "rape" or "help," they should scream "fire." Unfortunately, many people within earshot may hesitate to respond to the screams of some one in danger unless they feel that they personally share that danger...
Those few Italians within earshot were somewhat nonplused when an American Indian named Lucky Eagle stepped off a Boeing 747 at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport and declared: "In the name of the Indian people, I claim the right of discovery and take possession of this land...
...that, gentlemen and ladies, as Bobby Riggs likes to put it, is what is known in the trade as hustle. Which is what happens to any man, woman or child who comes within earshot of Robert Larimore Riggs, the most notorious, obstreperous and, a good many women would say, obnoxious 55-year-old adolescent in the land...
...down-home operation with a bunch of good old boys on his committee. There's a war veteran with an arm missing and a camera bug and an Ivy Leaguer and a fellow who used to cure country hams. There is some courtliness, a little cussing beyond earshot, some poetry, and a lot of Bible...