Word: earshot
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Curly Byrd has been working hard, and for the most part privately, on the segregation issue. Example: with a newsman within earshot, a farmer sidled up to Byrd and asked: "What're you going to do about the shines?" Said Curly: "Keep 'em out!" When the nearby reporter said he was going to include the exchange in his story, Byrd blew up, flatly denied having made the remark...
...Within earshot of the honking Broadway traffic amid skyscraper like dormitories, the Columbia student has listened to respected lecturers and continued to pursue his academic life while the Bicentennial office in Low Memorial Library planned ways to unite the world in a reaffirmation of the ideal of freedom of knowledge. The academic activity of the University for 1954 have been curiously distant from each other. Students, aside from two student government, staged conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator...
...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
...slanted. Reading it is like sitting through a three-hour campaign rally. I have a suspicion almost all its readers are Democrats to start with. But as a monthly dose of propaganda, it will keep the faithful happy, their barrels fully loaded for any Republican who happens within earshot...
...result of such systematic repression of anti-Peronistas is that political conversations-except in private and out of earshot of servants or school-indoctrinated children-are unknown in the capital. In the eighth year of Perón, the atmosphere of constraint and fear that prevails in Buenos Aires is probably unequalled this side of the Iron Curtain...