Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busch didn't know at the time that the lens had shattered. "Tell me if it's broken, Jimmy," he keep saying as trainer Jimmy Cox mopped the eye with wet towels. He found out 20 minutes later on the emergency operation table at Massachusetts General Eye and Ear Infirmary. It took surgeons two hours to pick particles of plastic out of Busch's left eye--and save his sight...
When the Tennessee Valley Authority got started in the early days of the New Deal, an ear-splitting shrick burst from conservative ranks. The TVA was charged with being: (a) a power-mad bureaucracy (b) a giant Democratic boondoggle (c) a violation of states' rights, and other things too horrible to mention. Needless to say, the TVA proved to be none of these evils and in fact it brought the Middle South back to life. Its success started citizens in other areas of the nation thinking seriously about more Valley Authorities, but thus far the mercenaries of the special interest...
...ridden into the Senate on Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...
Attorney Harry Sacher said the judge tried to "negate" defense statements by his gestures. The way Sacher described them: "You scratched your head and pulled your ear." "When I scratch my head I'm just plain scratching my head," laughed Medina. "I have a habit of doing that and I'm not going to change it just because you don't like...
Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...