Word: overhear
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...window of their Rhineland manor and getting wet in the rain? He only wants to tell her that she is "still the best remedy against boredom." It is a novel way to say "I love you," but the house is bugged and Tolm does not want the police to overhear him, even if it is for his own good. As Holzpuke, the officer in charge of household security, explained, all conversations are analyzed. Even the most innocent exchange may contain a clue about where and when terrorists will strike...
...high court after losing two appeals in Florida, were former Miami Beach Policemen Noel Chandler and Robert Granger. In the pre-dawn hours of May 23,1977, they showed up at Picciolo's Restaurant and stole $5,700. An insomniac ham radio operator six miles away happened to overhear their walkie-talkie conversation and recorded it. That tale was surefire television drama. Since the Florida Supreme Court had approved a one-year experiment with televised trials throughout the state, a single, unobtrusive TV camera and a still camera were allowed in court during the case. Less than three minutes...
...fight the Cubans in Ethiopia." It would have been a harmless joke, except that the Soviets as well as some State Department officials were already quivering with anxiety about the anti-Soviet overtones of the trip, and the reporters gathered round were sure to overhear the quip and make news out of it. They...
...look, well, sad. They leave before the last race at the dog track and walk out across the vast parking lot, clutching their superfecta tickets. Someone catches the finale and dashes out, just making the train. And though the men would rather go home not knowing, they always overhear. They had the 4-3-7-1, and wouldn't you know it, they came in 4-3-1-7, and the tickets are ripped in half and thrown on the floor...
...years of the California lifestyle, Simon has again taken an apartment in New York (this one with more than one room). Like one of his characters in California Suite, he criticizes Los Angeles as a "place of mediocrity." In contrast to a New York luncheonette, in which he can overhear several different conversations at the same time, Simon thinks car-oriented L.A. limits his exposure to the people with whom he works. Simon enjoys making movies but not the town in which they are made. "I couldn't be a playwright in L.A.," he remarks...