Word: eared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1946, everyone had an ear cocked for Byrnes's reaction to Wallace's Madison Square Garden speech, when Wallace denounced the firm policy which Byrnes was trying to carry out toward Russia. Byrnes was then in Paris at a delicately deadlocked peace conference. Byrnes maintained a towering public silence, but six days after the speech he sent a bristling message to the President, now made public for the first time...
...Colonel Sweats. The Reds seemed to listen at first with only half an ear. Said Mr. Lasky...
...same week La Terre said: "We are happy to note an appreciable increase in the price of milk, which rises from 9.75 to 15 francs a liter, and of butter, which is increased by 60%. Thus the authorities seem to have lent an ear to the claims we advanced on behalf of French farmers. . . . Let us hope that the new price level will become generalized for all farm products...
...Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gaped at the unwonted spectacle of their crustaceous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, taking advice and instruction. His adviser, standing next to the podium, was a stumpy, balding little old man in a frayed brown suit. Once, when the little man whispered in Beecham's ear, the conductor stopped, said: "We are reminded that by this time in the work Don Quixote is sadder but wiser...
Preliminary research by the lab revealed that "many good hearing aids were on the market and that among the better ones there was little to choose; and secondly, that none of the models brought speech to the defective ear with the clarity and crispness required for understanding under conditions of noise and stress...