Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a routine French patrol set out from Timimoun to check on a company located some 30 miles to the northeast. When they got to the area, they found the company's eight French officers and noncoms sprawled in their tents, their throats cut from ear to ear. The remaining 53 Shamba corpsmen had taken off across the desert with 180 camels...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...
...making his longest journey north from Rome since he became Pope, Pius XII visited the new transmitting station, now Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
...Altar Boy. McNulty had an ear like a hard neighborhood cop for the giveaway phrase. Describing one of his sad quirky little pub characters, a man called The Slugger, he wrote: "He looked like a guy that was maybe a small altar boy and fell into bad company for thirty-four years...
That night Kennedy arose before a sellout audience, boyishly tugged at his ear, tweaked his nose, ran a finger around the inside of his shirt collar, and announced bleakly: "I am particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us to disagree as Democrats within our party organization." The silence grew heavier. Kennedy plunged ahead, reading the text of Republican Verger's tricky challenge. Said he: "I accept the challenge. You who have been gracious enough to invite me hererealize that...