But when oil prices fell recently because of record foreign and domestic crops, the olive growers cried for helpand the sharp-eared Department of Agriculture heard it.
The sharp-eared pros of Front Runner Jack Kennedy even thought they detected a bang, breathlessly watched for the challenger to come parachuting down out of the nomination race.
Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear .
Brian Williams in Washington Post Williams tells viewers that the audio recording was made by journalists Ben Bradlee and Jim Cannon and as Williams notes, "The very sharp-eared among us listeners can hear Sen. Kennedy's cigar cutter."