Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able in the air. "Weightlessness," he explained with the assurance of a man who knows, "does not interfere with man's capacity for work," though at first he felt as if he were "flying legs up." He had suffered an uneasy sensation in his inner ear, he said, and though he ate his first two meals on schedule, his appetite was not normal. There was also a faint sense of psychological unease. "I knew that there was something in the nature of homesickness called nostalgia," he said, ''but up there, I found there is also a homesickness...
...most of U.S. industry, recent weeks have been rosy ones-a time for reporting the increased earnings that confirm that recovery is indeed under way. But in the midst of this happy chorus came an ear-splitting burst of cacophony-the news that giant General Dynamics. 15th largest industrial corporation in the U.S.. had suffered a first-half loss of $39.5 million. More sobering yet was the fact that General Dynamics was suffering from a difficulty that besets the biggest names in the commercial airframe industry. Cause of the trouble: the jet transport...
...over the U.S., a new order of restless American stalks city and countryside carrying tiny transistors. He can't stand silence. With his gadget turned up full-blast, the bleatnik goes about his pursuits with ear and mind cocked to sportscasts, disk-jockeywockey and what passes for pop music. He plods along, swinging his radio like an attaché case, or stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads...
...than-life (10½ ft., 880 Ibs.) bronze statue that is in many ways as strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside his brother Theo...
...Though the instruments have a right and a left earpiece, designed to match the forward slant of the doctor's ear canal, some fit so badly that a piece of ear completely shuts off the hole...