Word: earshot
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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...
...daddy of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, making as much as $200,000 a year on radio and TV until he was caught accepting some $30,000 in record-company payola in 1959, got a six months' suspended sentence and faded from earshot; of uremia; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Those needs have been best served up to now by a money policy of relative ease. A prime reason that the current expansion has been so prolonged is the abundance of easy credit for installment buying and capital spending-and Lyndon Johnson, for one, has been telling everyone within earshot of his desire to keep money cheap and easy...
...cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...