Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Festung Europa was a continent behind a flexible system of interrelated land, air and sea defenses. Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
...terrible scream rent the air and a concussion shook the earth. One shell after another whistled by, exploded with an ear-bursting crack on the slope...
...doctors would lend an ear to anti-vaccal Dr. Soper, but milk bacteriologists agree with him about the bacteria. Among those present...
...lives in a suburban town 20 miles from London with redheaded, cheerful Mrs. Gubbins, Daughters Felicity. 19, and Stephanie, 17, with a cat which actually has had 109 kittens. Gubbins goes to London Thursdays only. The rest of the week he invites his sensitive soul and ear, especially in pubs, picks up many a slow-spoken Briticism...
...also a disappointment. For Miss Howe, a ranking monologuist, brings into fiction both the virtues and the faults of her art. She has a fine ear for the devilish ironies and self-betrayals of normal speech (or writing), and her whole book is nervous and vivid with them. But she has also the monologuist's weakness for overemphasis, for sacrificing psychological integrity in favor of a laugh or a sniff. Even so, The Whole Heart is an impressive, realistic piece of work...