Word: earshot
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...Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier yelled and babbled until Greek officials hustled the audience out of earshot. One of the Greeks put his hand to his head and mumbled...
...rickety, five-story house on Manhattan's West 46th Street, well within earshot of Broadway's clatter and chatter, Variety last week passed its 40th birthday. To celebrate it, pink-cheeked, bow-tied Editor Abel Green, 44, and his staff went to press with a bulging, green-covered, 324-page anniversary number that was five-sixths advertising...
...economy-minded Congressmen within earshot, Ike Eisenhower made a "flash guess" that a military establishment under a single command could be maintained with 25% fewer men than under divided command. "With integration we can buy more security for less money." When he was through, eager listeners in the Senate caucus room scrambled for transcripts of his statement...
Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
...Marshalls one night, Marine Smith found himself with two comrades in a foxhole within earshot of the enemy. In Japanese, he invited confused Jap soldiers to join him. One after another, four of them crawled over; Smith quietly bayoneted them to death. Smith's friends left for another foxhole. Said he: "I guess they thought I was crazy...