Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sufferer, sidewalks sag, buildings wag. These are some of the symptoms that signal the onslaught of Meniere's disease, a recurring disorder of the inner ear that can in acute cases destroy the sense of balance and cause violent nausea, severe vertigo and progressive deafness. First recorded in detail by a 19th century French ear doctor, Prosper Meniere, the disease has been attributed to a variety of causes-cysts, tumors, allergy, arterial spasms, bacterial or viral infections, even psychological factors-and tends to disappear with the passage of time...
...unit for measuring relative loudness of sounds, the decibel is approximately the smallest degree of difference that, a human ear can detect between the loudness of two sounds...
...system, developed by New York's Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., has an automatic projector in the ceiling and a screen at the front of the cabin for each class. So that passengers who want to read or sleep will not be disturbed, movie watchers wear featherweight ear sets with volume controls...
...taste for "tanglefoot," and woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles barefoot through snow and prickly pear; the U.S. Cavalry troop with which Bill rode and whose main commissary item was a five-gallon demijohn of whisky and Old Tom Cat gin; the Indian...
...Lobsenz, 28, knows something of the parched, granitic harshness of the Spanish earth and the grave pride and passion of the Spaniard, and he conveys these with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like to pull down all prejudices and ignorance and persuade...