Word: eardrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...
...John Tabor once roared so loud in wrath at the New Deal that he jarred free the clogged eardrum of Rep. Leonard Schultz, restoring his hearing (Time...
...descended, English-born Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite M.P., was attacking the Government's policy on the Spanish War, Commander Bower suddenly rose and yelled: "Go back to Poland!" Small, sinewy Emanuel Shinwell walked across the House of Commons and smacked Commander Bower so hard on the ear that his eardrum burst. The Commander took to his bed and issued bulletins on the state of his health; later he felt it necessary to say: "This is an example of what may happen if the Socialists...
Lieut. Bhagat continued gambling with death for 96 hours without halt. He was ambushed once, blown up once, had his eardrum split. The commander called Premindra Singh Bhagat's labor "the longest continued feat I have ever seen of sheer cold courage...
...human ear consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...