Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played endless practical jokes. When one of her victims sent her a dead rat in retaliation, she screamed with laughter, sent it back with a lily on its chest. She loved her two dogs-a Sealyham, Chips, and a Scottie, Chops-summoning them with ear-splitting whistles. In moments of remorse she would sink to her knees to pray...
When Edgar Burchell was 16, he got a job as porter at Manhattan's Eye and Ear Infirmary-7 a.m. to 7 p.m., $17 a month. To bolster his meager earnings, he began making anatomical specimens on the side; by way of continuing his education, which had stopped with primary school, he went to free lectures at Cooper Union and Washington Irving High School. Some nights after work, in the hospital's empty laboratory, he practiced experiments he had seen others do. Eventually, he became one of the laboratory assistants...
...conference Franklin Roosevelt denied having used the exact cuss word TIME reported, said that his words to the head election official had been, "Tom, the damn thing won't work," advised the White House Correspondents' Association to defray the expense of sending the errant reporter to an ear specialist. TIME will gladly undertake that expense-as well as the cost of examining the ears of the five other reporters and photographers who heard the same thing...
...show was not the Museum's most successful flea-in-the-ear. But the average visitor was bound to react to some of the exhibits, come away with an idea or two, even a few private demurrers...
Torture & Rescue. Gestapo officials, fat, perfumed, homosexual, questioned him cleverly, relentlessly. Their underlings slugged him behind the ear, whipped him, knocked his teeth out. After three days, in a moment of rest, Karski found a safety razor blade in the lavatory. He slashed his wrists, missed the veins, tried again. The blood streamed like a fountain. Then it stopped...