Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unable to walk at all unless he tilts his head forward at a 45° angle, holds it perfectly still and then shuffles along with his feet spread far apart. His doctor, Earl W. Brannon, says that the bathtub blow hit just slightly above Glenn's left ear, sending shock waves crashing into his inner ear, possibly causing swelling and some hemorrhaging. "He botched up his equilibrium center to a pretty good degree," explains Brannon...
...chatted quietly with a knot of reporters. Republican Leader Dirksen huddled with his lieutenants on the other side of the aisle, occasionally padding across the Chamber's carpeted floor to fling a bearlike arm around a colleague's shoulders and whisper a few honeyed words into his ear...
Segregation remains the general rule for concert audiences in Mississippi and Alabama; elsewhere it is accomplished more discreetly. And much of the South is effectively ear-muffed; Rudolf Bing two years ago refused to allow the touring Met to appear before segregated audiences, and Sol Hurok, with his huge stable of artists, has had a similar policy for a decade. At week's end the new musical boycott of the Deep South was endorsed by Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz' stand was duly reported in the press, despite its purely theoretical value-he has not played in public anywhere...
...talking toys, as well as huge quantities of plastic, zinc and steel for its new line of bikes, tricycles and trucks; the line will have a battery-driven device called the VRROOM, which emits a roar like a motorcycle and is intended to catch every boy's ear...
...sado-masochistic mehod is a remnant of the do-it-yourself craze. The masochist uses small earrings with a spring which can be adjusted to vary the amount of pressure on the ear. By clipping on these earrings and adjusting the springs, the masochist can pierce her own ears at her own rate of speed. A problem may arise, however, if the earrings are knocked awry during sleep; a piercee might awaken to find that the holes in her two ears don't match...