Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ear still to the ground and still a little hard of hearing, let it be known that he wanted Barcelona newspapers to stop calling him Caudillo (Chief). The preferred handle hereafter: "His Excellency the Chief of State...
Slowly Laval sank to his knees. An officer rushed to the bending figure, fired a final bullet into his ear. Pierre Laval's death, like his life, had brought no honor to France...
...Beloved brethren: A little girl of our diocese, Pierrette Regimbal of Val D'Or, has for a few weeks past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
When Mérida was ten years old, he decided to be a musician. For six years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed...
...commercial dairy, by Sergeant Josiah E. Greene, 34, ex-writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm wives real, unpleasant and very much alive...