Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington swarmed with lobbyists bent on lifting wartime price controls. In the Senate, they found many a sympathetic ear. As debate on extension of the present OPA law began, two hotly controversial amendments were proposed...
Woody went straight to West Point's football coach, Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody...
Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...
...programmes, it smacks of cosmopolitanism. At Harvard Night at the Pops on Monday, people sat at little green tables in a carnivalized Symphony Hall sipping claret lemonade, drinking Black Horse Ale, eating Hood's ice cream, satisfying the lusts of the palate along with the pleasures of the ear. They chattered through the waltzes and they stood for "Fair Harvard" and they were careless and relaxed all night in the lap of familiarity...
...time for, changes a few broadcasting bowdlerisms (bejeepers becomes beJesus). But what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news-and no answer comes...