Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece's poorly equipped, indifferently trained Army fought 200,000 Italian regulars in the mountains of Epirus and Macedonia Little John, who had once been thought an Axis stooge, called for aid from Britain and Turkey. Turkey's President Ismet Inönü had one ear cocked toward the Kremlin, and since his other ear is stone deaf, he did not immediately hear the call. Britain, expecting an attack on Gibraltar any day, sent her Mediterranean Fleet steaming toward the danger area. If Britain lost in the Eastern Mediterranean, and lost Gibraltar too, her goose was much...
Citing the wrecking of the London conference, the N.R.A., the pig-killing, the pump priming, the court packing, and the purging as his reasons for distrusting the President, he labeled him "a brilliant amateur, fond of playing by ear...
...down-at the tutors' table. No sooner had he been served than the Faculty members came in, and filled the chairs on each side of him. Never in his life had he felt so out of place. But in an instant there was a friendly voice in his ear: "I don't believe I've met you. . . . This is Mr. Mayberry, Mr. Walcott, Mr. McHugh. . . ." The Sophomore turned to see who had spoken, and found beside him a little man, thin, sandy-haired, mustached. Kindly-faced and attentive, he spent the rest of the meal trying to make the Sophomore...
...Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...