Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that she can venture out alone without making costly faux pas. She has learned to resist her tendency to hunker down and hide. These days, she says jauntily, "Ronnie always complains that when I go places and come back I never tell him anything--that he has to hear it from other people...
Reagan's boyish enthusiasm is part of his public appeal, and that gee-whiz attitude begins at home. As the President told TIME in an interview, "When something unusual happens, or something important in my life, or something that I hear about, the first thing in my mind is, 'Wait till I tell Nancy!' It's that way between us." Even political decisions are cast in romantic terms. Of the period a year ago, when Reagan wanted her to go along with his desire to seek re-election, she says, "I guess he was wooing...
...been mugged five times and talked at length about how little protection New Yorkers had from criminals. The book dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante" who had shot four youths he felt were threatening him on a New York subway. "How did you hear about it?" the visitor asked. "He was interested in it," said Stotler, "but he didn't try to pin me down for details." After a while, the New Yorker left without purchasing a book. "I thought he was a nice guy," Stotler said. "And after hearing what...
Arnold's own personal rush comes from the warmth of his customers. They need him desperately, after all, and when they hear his plane they are out on their makeshift runways, pulling sleds, flashing blinding smiles. On this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went...
Ralph: Let me get my coat off, dearest. I want to brace myself on the off chance that someone I love intends to launch a hearty feminist harangue. Am I about to hear that smiling is bad for women...