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Word: ear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact bombs, so that even duds caused terror. German bombers scoured the skies over Allied columns moving along highways, coming down in ear-shattering power dives to bomb and machine-gun, then zooming up into high loops to dive again farther down the road (see p. 21). And the Sixth Column-the milling, hysterical hordes of refugees, 2,000,000 of them in the Belgian pocket alone-clogged roads and snarled up the already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Desperation | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...extra values newspapers and magazines may offer today, one thing remains the same...the beart of a free press is still the good reporter. It is still the man with the nose for news, as peculiar and authentic a possession as the eye of a painter or the ear of a musician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A nose for news--and a stomach for whiskey | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

...weeks age in a message to you, my American friends, I weighed my words to avoid tactless remarks which might be interpreted by susceptible listeners as propaganda. Who cares about propaganda tonight? Now, I wish my words might reach very American ear. Crimes, murders, horrors, are being committed. You know it... Louvain, which American money rebullt after the last war, is once more in ruins. Peasants, whose village you generally once rehabilitate, are again fleeing before the same invader. People of Belglum and France are being killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORIZE BIDS AMERICA SLEEP WELL, BE CONFIDENT, IN PARIS BROADCAST | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?' There wasn't a note in the lot. We all played by ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...year-old laryngeal replacement for rapidly maturing Deanna Durbin. Crosby & Gloria Jean sing Burke & Monaco's l Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire, Meet the Sun Halfway and Pessimistic Character. Alone, Bing Crosby sings ll I Had My Way. This is very easy on the ear, but along with it spectators have to take the Swedish wit, El Brendel, and a story in which, for the sake of Gloria Jean, Singer Crosby abandons the carefree life of a structural steelworker to become a restaurateur. As practiced by Singer Crosby, the restaurant business turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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