Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR RICHARD. Richard, the poet-charmer on the run from his memories, may not be as engaging as the playwright's ear lier creation, Mary, the wisecracking wife on the brink of divorce, but Jean Kerr's wit keeps the play incisive and amusing...
...Houston, in charge of crew operations. Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn made an abortive try at politics, later retired from the Marine Corps, is now a director of a soft-drink company. Alan Shepherd was grounded 1½ years ago as a result of an infection of the inner ear, now serves as a coordinator of astronaut activities. And Scott Carpenter has been detached for service with the Navy's Project Sealab, an experiment in living under water...
...Banged Ear. In recent years, Tory Leo Amery crossed the floor to slap the face of Laborite George Buchanan; Labor's Emmanuel Shinwell, outraged at a reference to his Polish ancestry, punched Tory Commander Robert Bower (once an amateur boxing champion) and damaged his eardrum. Conservative Ronald McNeil obtained a sort of immortality by throwing a book at Winston Churchill; he missed...
...never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
...that a car had already started out from Western Avenue, and swerved towards the river in order to avoid it. After hitting ice on the curb, he cut back and jammed on the brakes. The ear, a GTO Pontiac, skidded 200 feet and smashed into a tree on the right side of the road...