Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only one quarter of an ear but that time everybody but me thought he had big news...
...Schuetz (rhymes with toots), deaf in the left ear since birth, had spent thousands of dollars on ear specialists...
Schuetz thought he had been hit in an air raid and left for dead. Then he realized he could hear-for the first time in his life with the left ear; better than before with the right. Last week, to the confusion of medicos, Mr. Schuetz's hearing was excellent, and kindly Stentor Taber had new proof that it did some good to shout down the New Deal...
...Neuf-chateau. At 5:20 a.m. the bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy. whose windows were smashed. Ambassador John Cudahy lost hearing in one ear. The Embassy staff, awakened by the crash, philosophically went to breakfast...
With far fewer sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show an equal talent for high-spirited folk humor...