Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won. We bypassed the tanks and bumped onward over the roadside trolley line, passing villas licking flames into...
...electron paused and stratched his ear thoughtfully; then went on. "Yes, I've had my troubles here just like everybody else, but in spite of everything. I like it. It's a pleasure to work with such a fine bunch of men. Every electron in the school says the same thing. Just ask them. There's only one other thing I have to complain of. Sometimes Professor Wing goes so fast in his lectures, I can't keep up with...
...amid all sorts of discussion and argument about the facts and their meaning-and before they go to press late Monday night there has been more than one sharp conflict and too often an exploded temper. By that time the managing editor's tie is usually around his ear, his hair is in his eyes, he is lighting one cigaret from another and vaguely wishing that he had majored in a dead language when he was in college. For there is no one among all the names at the left who is not entitled to be heard on from...
...Family too often repeats its good jokes, half-kills their effect with bad ones. But it has its very funny moments. Really hilarious is a scene where a half-dead, three-quarters blind old baby doctor (well played by William Wadsworth) gropes his way around the apartment, diagnosing by ear...
Higher Civilization. Eduardo Villaseñor, head of the Banco de Mexico, keeps one shrewd ear attuned to business, the other to the mutterings of the people. A few days before Ambassador Messersmith spoke, Banker Villaseñor warned: "If the U.S. does not dimmish the evils due to export restrictions [on U.S. manufactured goods and industrial supplies] it will directly cause a fall in the industrial and agricultural problems of a country whose collaboration is essential for the war. We must not risk the loss of our own culture without even acquiring a higher level of civilization...