Word: eardrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eardrum-rupturing explosion, then another, sent blinding clouds of smoke and dust billowing into the air. Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...began to see what the war was about . . ." He asked to be classified as eligible for the draft but was found to be 4F (perforated eardrum). He pressed for an overseas war job and got one with OWI, was sent to South China in 1945 to write leaflets and show U.S. movies. Hinton was soon convinced that he wanted to save the Chinese...
...antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...
...stage transistor amplifier, complete with resistors and condensers, that is potted in a cylinder of plastic as big as a ¾-inch section cut from a fountain pen. When a faint voice current is fed to this trifle, it gives a signal loud enough to blast the eardrum. Scores of such amplifiers could be packed in a coffee can. One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel...
Robinson insists that he was in the hospital with a perforated eardrum at the time, and has an honorable discharge to prove it. But the whole affair left a bitter taste in his mouth...