Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before adjournment, the conferees appointed a committee of 14 of their number to investigate further formulae of acceptance for Reservation Five, and announced their intention of meeting again in a few weeks. The committee, casting about for some loophole through which compromise can be effected, gave ear to an opinion expressed by President Coolidge last week...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
...newsgatherer, sharp of ear, might have imagined he heard snatches of momentous conversation: "Uh-huh. . . .No, peas. . . . Uh? . . .Yes, I guess I will.. . . Vichy, unless we can get White Rock, please...
...vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
...Dictator's car slowed to turn a corner the knife hurtled, grazed Prime's left ear, penetrated two inches into the upholstery...