Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a model of imperturbability, inquired whether Clark's illness was not political...
...sang Pancho Villa's ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
Other Democratic bosses also heard the voters' voice. Chicago's Ed Kelly, once thumpingly in favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...
...ricaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard's ear...
General Mark Clark, suffering from ear trouble in Chicago, canceled a northwestern trip, hustled back to Washington, D.C., for treatment...