Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind the Ear. So far, all the General's tank-destroyer equipment is improvised or highly experimental. There are guns on half-track trucks, machine guns and 375 on trucks, and peeps. He is even towing some guns until he gets something better. He will soon get some 755 mounted on chassis of medium tanks...
...will not need the armor anyway. Conversely, slowing a destroyer down with the weight of armor only makes armor necessary. As one of the General's men says: "The idea is if Joe Louis is sitting in the corner with his back turned, you hit him behind the ear with brass knuckles. You hit him with plenty. Then you get the hell out before all Harlem breaks loose...
...House Appropriations Committee subcommittee was on its ear now. It whacked some more. Tough old John Taber of New York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
Recruit. At Fort Dix, N.J., John Merighi, who had undergone 40 operations, been blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, half paralyzed, and had a headache for ten years, was found physically fit at last, admitted to the Army...
...town into two warring factions. In the clash between labor and capital Emily feels for both sides. ("There it was, I thought, the word 'they' that we all took refuge in. It would always crop up to foster hate and misunderstanding.") She also begins to take ear treatments from young Dr. Vance...