Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRESTON, CONN.--Ever hear the old wives' tale that everything bad comes in threes...
...Reagans had no comment Sunday afternoon as they alighted from the helicopter that brought them from Camp David, Md., where they had spent the weekend. Reagan pointed to his ear, indicating he could not hear questions shouted at him by reporters; Mrs. Reagan appeared cool and unsmiling, but said nothing...
Vladimir Nabokov carried his love of Russian into exile: "Beyond the seas where I have lost a sceptre,/ I hear the neighing of my dappled nouns,/ Soft participles coming down the steps,/ Treading on leaves, trailing their rustling gowns...
...into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers. "I communicate with them," he said. "I just tell them things they don't want to hear." The whispers were that he was especially harsh with the blacks...
...candidate this year who could be accused of uxoriousness. Marching in a chilly St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago last month, Kitty asked him to push up her collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake me up. Don't let a moment go by." (Kitty cut in with a sharp, "Your microphone's on.") Sometimes, to counteract criticism that he lacks fire, Dukakis will tell audiences, "Kitty thinks I'm passionate...