Word: earshot
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Then it was back to Prague to greet a welcome guest: Rumania's President and party boss Nicolae Ceausescu, who strongly backs Dubcek's independent-minded policies. At a reception in his honor, Ceausescu cornered the Soviet Ambassador to Prague, Stepan Chervonenko. In full earshot of other guests, he gave the Russian a 30-minute lecture on the evils of interfering in other countries' affairs. As a gesture of unity, Ceausescu and the Czechoslovaks signed a new friendship pact between the two countries. The Czechoslovaks and Rumanians also discussed embarking upon a form of economic cooperation similar...
Keating's dissenting colleagues worried that the road decision might lead to a rash of noise-damage suits by people who live within earshot of new state highways. Chief Judge Stanley Fuld took the trouble to write a concurring opinion that New York courts will not grant Dennison-style damages willy-nilly. But as highways reach out farther and farther, more people are likely to try Ira Dennison's tactics...
...Cultural Revolution, some 110 million youths above the age of nine have been excused from school since last June, either to serve in the Red Guards or simply cavort around the countryside while studying Mao's writings and singing his praises to everyone within earshot. A peasant in remote Sinkiang province may never know anything about the current battle for power, but if he knows nothing else, he will know who Mao is and what he says. Even if Mao's opponents should ultimately triumph, they would probably have to do so without impugning Mao personally. Lin Piao...
Influential Style. That hidden art was often overshadowed by Dos Passes' obtrusive style. He devised what he called The Camera Eye-poetically subjective inlays in the raw plain-deal prose, where the novelist had his metrical fling out of earshot of his characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves...
Soon even Moscow - in the voice of Evsei Liberman - was talking of "in centives" and the "profit motive," a green light to the East bloc that soon set Hungary, Bulgaria and even the Stalinist states of East Germany and Czechoslovakia to thinking about reform. Out of earshot of the West, economists began discussing things that the West would understand: bonuses and reinvestment, free prices and the need for incentives, even the accumulation of wealth-once a heretical thought under "egalitarian" Communism. Quite independently of one another, the prophets of profit began coming to the same conclusion: rigid Stalinist-style central...