Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid klaxon ground in Vag's ear...
...California banker whose past enterprises include two famed Hollywood playgrounds: the Agua Caliente race track (now closed for the duration) and the La Playa Hotel at Ensenada. Undaunted by the fact that several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho that horse racing would benefit Mexican horse breeding, Good...
...Harry Hopkins still closest to Mr. Roosevelt's ear-and has he changed much since his marriage? What is Vice President Wallace really like and would he make a good President...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
They are now being replaced in a number of industries by made-to-measure ear mufflers of smooth plastic, put out by Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves...