Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting a Hellcat-two fly-like dots against the sky going around like Ferris wheels...
...front from Switzerland to the North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...
Henry Morgenthau, talked down in this session, went ahead on his own. Suddenly Messrs. Hull and Stimson learned that Morgenthau was in Quebec. Neither Mr. Hull nor Mr. Stimson enjoy a basic Morgenthau advantage-(for years Henry Morgenthau has always had Eleanor Roosevelt's ear...
...room mansion outside London, Albania's King Zog and his half-American Queen Geraldine held modest court but kept a sensitive ear cocked Balkanwards. Zog was dead set on going home. Said he: "Whether I'm King or not, Albania is my fatherland...
Married and divorced from 1) a Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...