Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford, he vaulted on and off stages like a track star, cavorted in a swimming pool, journeyed out into the country to gaze up wonderingly at California's giant redwoods, and once drew a little girl aside with a promise of a secret, then whispered in her ear: "I love you." Always at his side was his striking 27-year-old wife, Sarolta, interpreting, smoothing his way, even firmly sending him to bed at 7 p.m. to rest from a tiring...
Many whites, of course, are opposed to apartheid; in 1960 Verwoerd survived an assassination attempt by an anti-apartheid white farmer who shot him in the ear and jowl at a Johannesburg cattle show. But the opposition
...severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band and found that about half of its players had damaged hearing. Hi-fi can be a hazard with earphones, which can easily develop 135 decibels with the volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people shout into one another's ears, or if it causes a slight temporary hearing loss, or if it brings on ringing in the ears...
...danger of deafness is thus real and definable. Psychological damage, if any, is mostly in the ear of the hearer. Not a man exists who has not suffered what the experts call "auditory insult"-annoyance or irritation-but all too often, for purposes of definition, one man's sour note is another man's lost chord...
...McGeorge Bundy, now with the Ford Foundation. George Hamilton was on hand to enchant her evenings, and Lynda spent her last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito, where Georgie, accompanied by five violinists, sang Language of Love in her ear. Meanwhile, down in Nassau the language was "Do Not Disturb" as Luci and Pat hid out in a Lyford Cay villa for four days before emerging for tea with the Governor of the Bahamas...