Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...
...circle, like highways converging into a cloverleaf, the four ascending arteries pour the brain's blood supply, and from the circle branch off the principal feeder lines from which oxygen is extracted for the brain's ceaseless activity. Located inside the skull about the eye-and-ear level, the Circle of Willis is in too dangerous a place for surgeons to cut into its vessels. Yet the different segments of the circle's perimeter are subject to all the ills that afflict the ascending arteries -and more...
Bringing Up Buddy (CBS) unleashes cascades of canned laughter that are so at variance with the vapid comedy on -the screen that the ear automatically dials out the sound in defense of sanity. The story involves boyish Buddy, a rising young executive (Frank Aletter), entrapped in the fuddled care of two maiden aunts (Doro Merande and Enid Markey) who are so naive and troublesome that they should be put out of harm's way before the series gets much older. Script credit goes to one George Tibbies, who may add a new word to show-business lingo. Entertainments...
When Columbus first landed in northern Haiti (Hispaniola) in 1492, he captured a lovely Indian girl who was expensively but sparsely clad-with a golden nose plug and nothing else. Next day he found a town of 1,000 houses, some of whose inhabitants wore golden ear pendants. When he returned to Spain, he reported many of these small treasures...
Bats v. Moths. Bats, owls and porpoises all navigate or find their prey by sonic devices that are much more delicate and effective than anything man can build. More delicate still is the microscopic ear of a kind of moth that is often a prey of bats. It is tuned to the ultrasonic squeaks that bats send out, so the moth can take evasive action if a bat comes close. Biologists have already used this marvelous instrument. When electrodes are attached to its nerve, it makes the best known microphone for listening to bats...