Word: eardrum
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...University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...
Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women's war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the eardrum, failed as farce because it was never funny...
...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...