Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month tours of 45 days aboard and 15-day intervals ashore, TT-4's crews learned to live with its continual sway and shake-for the tower was designed to give with the stress of wind and wave. The men also learned to put up with the constant, ear-banging racket of water slapping against resounding steel plate, the whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower's hobby...
...campaign Kennedy promised to "recapture the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt," and Nikita Khrushchev hinted that with Kennedy in office U.S.-Soviet ties should revert to the cor diality of F.D.R.'s times. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has been telling everybody in Washington who may have Kennedy's ear that Moscow is ready to forget all about the U-2 unpleasantness if "progress" can now be chalked up-say, in extending the nuclear test suspension and in starting afresh on disarmament talks. Specifically, Khrushchev is said to be seeking a quick K.-to-K. meeting and planning to pop back...
...been done out of the senatorial nomination by De Sapio). They came within an ace of defeating De Sapio for the leadership of his home district in Greenwich Village, and they upended several De Sapio candidates in last year's primaries. They had Jack Kennedy's ear from the start, because Kennedy sorely wanted (and ultimately got) Stevenson-minded Eleanor Roosevelt's endorsement...
...past, some of the treatments for Meniere's disease have been almost as bad as the disease. Surgery to destroy the diseased part of one labyrinth ends the vertigo but leaves the whole job of balancing to the other ear and the eyes. It also deafens the ear involved. Another supposed cure has been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases...
...energy from an oscillator into mechanical vibrations in the air at a frequency of 1,000,000 cycles per second. A cone-shaped concentrator mechanically coupled to the crystal intensifies these vibrations and produces a sharply defined beam. The surgeon removes a small portion of the bone behind the ear, acoustically irradiates the exposed canal with the gun's waves. Much as a soprano's high note can shatter a wineglass, the beams shot from the gun are supposed to shake the diseased cell structure and destroy it. In preliminary tests on a group of 22 sufferers treated...