Word: earshot
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...local stations of some 200 small towns had literary stimulants to dispense last week. Author Meets the Critics, a two-year-old weekly feature on Manhattan's WHN, will henceforth be heard on records in Opelika, Ala., Tucumcari, N.Mex., many another village out of earshot of the big networks...
Time Out for Fighting. At the same rapid pace other fields began to appear on the rough, forbidding terrain of Saipan. Often the engineers, working within earshot of the Japs, had to take time out to fight. One day Lieut. Henry McCoy killed a sniper by running him down in a jeep...
...Battle of Lundy's Lane in Canada, within earshot of Niagara Falls, was one of the war's crucial fights. A Canadian version (close to the truth): "The hand-to-hand struggle lasted far into the night [until] the Americans withdrew." A U.S. version: "American troops won brilliant little victories at ... Lundy's Lane." ^ U.S. textbooks forgivably make much of David-&-Goliath triumphs over British vessels on Lake Erie ("Don't give up the ship"; "We have met the enemy and they are ours"). Most Canadian textbooks, ostrichlike, do not mention the naval battles...
...great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger turned tail and promptly got out of earshot. Some of the boys sang "Nassau Hall" as we put up our tents that night. Toujours gai. Toujours...
There was one camp Hope did not get to-so to catch his performance 600 men tramped ten miles across the moors, could not get within earshot, started tramping back again. After the show Hope heard about them, tossed his gang into jeeps, overtook the hikers and, in a drenching downpour, clowned for 40 minutes...