Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain. It worked...
...standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another, carrying steel knuckles crested with sharp spikes, gave the points a final affectionate polishing with emery cloth as he waited for the take-off for France. Though the official maximum weight...
...ear of many an M.P., and of many a plain Briton, Manny Shinwell's question still rang: "What is the difference...
...next thing the General knew, a revolver was jammed into his side. In German a voice whispered in his ear: "We are British officers. You are now our prisoner...
...March 1931, during a radio broadcast on his 90th birthday, Justice Holmes quoted a line from Latin Poet Virgil: "Death plucks my ear and says, Live-I am coming." Two years before Holmes's death newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, paying a social call, found the Justice reading Plato. Asked President Roosevelt: "Why do you read Plato, Mr. Justice?" Said Justice Holmes: "To improve my mind, Mr. President...