Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference, for instance, to her "magic charm" becomes a droll unintentional joke. She describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...
...Ryun runs with about as much style as a drunken sailor -head lolling, shoulders rotating. His pulse rate (about 70) is abnormally high for a miler, his breathing rate is unusually slow, and he is prone to dizzy spells caused by a malformed bone structure in his inner ear...
Marichal later claimed that the ball had ticked his ear. He spun around, bat in hand. "Why you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He charged at Marichal, and in front of 42,807 witnesses at Candlestick Park, Juan clubbed him three times on the head with the bat, sending blood streaming down the catcher's face from a deep wound in his scalp...
...threats. In the third inning, with the Dodgers leading 2-1, Marichal came to bat. The second pitch was low inside; Roseboro dropped the ball, then picked it up and deliberately fired it as hard as he could back to the mound-right past Juan's right ear...
...wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear...