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...NOTEBOOK: The professional scouts turned out in force to watch Mitchell pitch. Mitchell's fastball was clocked at 87 miles per hour, according to one bystandar...Also overheard from the scouts, about the ambidextrous Irving: "Too bad he's not a closer. With two arms, he could pitch every day of the wee. Cheaper...
...SITUATION THAT ARISES A MILlion times a day in offices around the world. An employee has something personal to tell a co-worker -- a confidence, a joke, a bit of gossip that might give offense if it were overheard. Rather than pick up the phone or wander down the hall, he or she simply types a message on a desktop computer terminal and sends it as electronic mail. The assumption is that anything sent by E-mail is as private -- if not more so -- than a phone call or a face-to-face meeting...
JONATHAN SHEINBERG WAS VISITING HIS FATHER'S California home when he overheard Dad talking on the phone about selling his company to a Japanese firm. This wasn't just any dad. Sidney Sheinberg is president of Hollywood's giant MCA Inc., and he was talking about its yet undisclosed sale to Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. When Sheinberg Sr. realized that Junior was listening in, he correctly warned his son to keep the news to himself and certainly not trade in the stock. But Jonathan just couldn't keep a secret, the SEC says. He has agreed...
Though my co-editors and I fall somewhere in between the two extremes, strict adherents to the old Adams religion considered our sanitized "Oak Leaf" a sacrilege. Overheard in the dining hall, for example: "It's just not funny if it's not offensive." And: "They've got to name names." One woman at Tommy's told me that I needed help figuring out who the "popular" people were. Of course, I hadn't heard the word "popular" applied to another student since I left North Cumberland Middle School. Another hard-core Adams woman taped her own in/out list, written...
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