Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them give ear to the anguished cry of 'Peace, peace,' which rises up to heaven from every part of the world." See RELIGION, The Council Opens...
Perhaps more than any other publication, TIME expects its reporters, writers and editors to have a sharp eye and ear for the quote. For precisely what a man or woman says often reveals character, defines an issue, spots a trend, clarifies a point or simply brightens a story. Some examples from this week's issue...
...like a thumb tack and mounting it so that its stem pressed on a transistor's sensitive spot. This device, smaller than a pinhead, performed as an excellent microphone. It can be made to transmit music faithfully, and can even pick up ultrasonic sounds to which the human ear does not respond...
Raytheon has high hopes for its near-microscopic microphone. Aside from countless possible uses in industry or the entertainment world or even in spacecraft, the microphone could certainly be used to great advantage in hearing aids, which could be made small enough to fit invisibly inside the ear. A hearing aid could be made even smaller, but the scientists feel that too small a device might get lost in the ear canal...
...hotel scene Humbert tries desparately to arrange it so that there will be no roll-away bed for him. The eventual arrival of the bed late at night is funny enough, but even more amusing is the frightened face on Humbert the next morning when Lolita whispers in his ear presumably the very idea he was afraid to utter himself...