Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once before in his career, Johnnie underwent surgery to clear up the deafness he developed in his teens. In January, on the second try, surgery worked, restored much of the hearing in his left ear. In the old hearing-aid days, Johnnie was unsure of rhythm and pitch, developed a habit of sliding into his notes. With his hearing restored, he promptly became panicky. "That first night," he says, "I was a nervous wreck. After my first show I rushed backstage and said to the other guys: 'O.K., now tell me I wasn't singing flat.' They...
...Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide: "It was a very excellent party, but now I do not feel so well." Geisha Isozaki tripped merrily off to a fashionable shop on the Ginza and bought Sukarno a 24-karat gold ear-cleaner inscribed with his name-the sort of gift that, in Japan, is made only to intimates...
...into another room, saw the rifle. She decided, she testified, to prove her love by demanding that her husband shoot her. Then she heard her baby cry, and in running to her daughter, tripped. The rifle fell, she insisted, and fired its slug two inches from Dean's ear...
...revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...
...there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then led it to the eye's outer corner...