Word: ear
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...recent discovery by a team of researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston may allow babies to be vaccinated against pathogens including influenza, whooping cough, and ear infections the day they are born rather than after the typical two-month waiting period...
...other hand, having the president’s ear can be critical. Few foreign service officers are able to claim it unless they are politically well-connected themselves...
...with John Stewart. I feel like I got a lot out of that class that is gonna stick with me for the rest of my life…All those little chord progressions and voice leadings—they’re in my bones, as well as my ear...
...still rather geeky culture of blogging also mitigates - or provides cover for - those of us who do not envision Hummel figurine collections in our future. The site's fans call themselves "cutologists," and they have composed a careful list of cute rules, including "small ear to head ratio" (rule #15) and "a thing, accompanied by a smaller version of that thing, is always cute" (rule #7). That slang has grown out of the commenting community of cutologists is not surprising; that someone compiled a list of definitions is slightly more so. (I admit I have incorporated "redonk" - the comic-book...
...Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." Summoned by Haddad, police "found Bettie in the shower with her clothes on, trying to wash out the blood stains. She kept the police waiting...