Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the CABmen watched with narrowed eyes, the DC-4 suddenly lurched and headed for the ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...
Practically the only sour note of the year was sounded by Bill Cunningham, whose sensitive Dartmouth ear was offended by several trombone notes at the end of the Big Green recording. Although refusing to provoke any further wrath from Bill, Manager Skinner placed the blame squarely on the columnist's shoulders by giving his trombonists a clean bill of health and commenting that "Cunningham apparently doesn't know a trombone from a tuba anyway...
...seldom any worse. She has been at it indefatigably since 1922, when the News began to look around the city room for someone to offset the already popular Poetical Guest. The searchers for talent could find no one with the same flair for carefully chopped meter, the same tin ear for prosody, and the same big heart. Anne heard about the search from her husband, George Washington Stark, then News city editor (and now a columnist), cried, "I can do it." The next morning she rushed into the editor's office, plumped a fistful of verse on his desk...
...Stewart Alexander, 27, strode into Philadelphia's Cedarbrook Country Club locker room wearing an ear-to-ear grin. His score-a five-under-par 66-broke the three-year-old course record in the first round of last week's $15,000 Inquirer Invitation Tourney. Fellow golfers shook his hand and slapped his back. Just when he was beginning to enjoy prosperity, the crash came. Veteran Ben Hogan, finishing three hours later over the damp fairways, entered the locker room triumphantly. He had just scored six under par, shooting six birdies and a big wide hole in Alexander...
...scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many a Western-trained ear Chen often seems to be asking for an indefinitely continued rule of the Kuomintang party elite...