Word: ear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tank towns eat high on around $12,000 a year. Everywhere the violent routine is just about the same: drop kicks that could snap a man's neck if the act were honest and they really landed in the face, bullet heads pounded boomingly against unyielding ring posts, ear biting, eye gouging, hair pulling, and plain, old-fashioned strangling...
Indonesia. President Sukarno may be an inept administrator but he has a keen ear and eye for the political currents that sweep Southeast Asia. His comment, "Parliamentary democracy doesn't work in this part of the world," has been justified by the events that have sent generally corrupt Parliaments packing from Pakistan to Thailand. But Sukarno's erratic guidance of his island nation of 85 million people has brought it dangerously near bankruptcy and disaster. A right-wing rebellion, sporadic, unmilitant, but persistent, threatens the nation's resources of oil and rubber. Indonesia is even more dangerously...
...shelving the bill than passing it, but when it came to a vote, Butler led his followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...
...longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers were presented with multiple images of Castro, ranging all the way from the Christ-like idealist to the ruthless murderer. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews recalled how Castro had "whispered his passionate hopes and ideals into my ear," wrote stories that could find little to criticize in "the greatest hero" in Cuba's history. "Batista with a beard," scowled the Chicago Sun-Times...
Newspapermen like to complain that in reporting the news, radio and television newsmen simply buy early editions of every paper in town and read the stories on the air. But there is a pencil behind the other ear. Television shows are creating more and more newspaper headlines...