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Word: eared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though she wears bracelets up to here, mink up to her ear, a lady isn't dressed unless her legs are too," trilled an American soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Oscars for Commercials | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Neither will moviegoers. Director Huston's eye for the limpid beauty of Japan's gardens, houses, temples and harbors is outstandingly true, but this time his ear and his touch have gone sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Listened to with half an ear," he says, "No-English sounds impressive, authoritative, and even powerful." He explains that proponents of this style are able to compose complete nonsense "with the self-assurance of an advertising copywriter or an editor of Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's Language Felt 'Generally Poor' | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...Lord so often terribly rebuked." But we have no right to assume "that the Psalmists are deceived or lying when they assert that, as against their particular enemies at some particular moment, they are completely in the right. Their voices while they say so may grate harshly on our ear and suggest to us that they are an unamiable people. But ... to be wronged does not commonly make people amiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lewis on the Psalms | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...unpublished chamber works). He is already working on scores he will conduct three years from now ("The music must sink in"). He memorizes all scores, usually on a first reading, and claims to have such absolute pitch that he can identify the make and model of most cars by ear. "I drive my car mostly by ear," he says, "and shift gears when the pitch of the motor reaches B flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fastest-Moving Conductor | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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