Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They crowd around you and shake hands and try to kiss you, ten of them at a time. Here are Russians, scores and scores of them, with the SV for Soviet Union daubed on their backs. There are many Russian women, strong and heavyset, smiling with broken teeth from ear to ear. There are French; some have been prisoners for five years...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...
...selecting the delegation the Generalissimo apparently had cupped an ear toward friends and advisers in the U.S.A significant part of the credit for better U.S.-Chinese relations was given to shrewd, big-hearted Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now Ambassador to China. Last week he was in Washington, making his last rounds on U.S.-Chinese business before returning to Chungking, and from his pep talks it seemed clear that the U.S. had made up its mind to give genuine support to the Generalissimo's Government. The Generalissimo, in turn, had heartened his American friends with a quiet profession...
Last week Raboin (who now has a new job: state organist) held his first Sunday concert. A reporter commented: "It was terrific. People stood with their mouths open. . . . It's got everybody on his ear...
...brief introduction Wolcott Gibbs pays a toastmaster's tribute to John O'Hara's remarkably accurate ear, to his clear perception of the difference between satire and burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible...