Word: eared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
...slight noise. Several of Dr. Oswald's informants thought they were associated with periods of anxiety. (In his own case, three out of four occurred in one night when he was trying to stay alert for a cry from one of his children who had an ear infection.) All the jerks came before deep sleep...
...wore ear muffs to keep out the cries of the crowd, and he liked uncooked artichokes. But there was nothing effete about France's six-year-old Jamin as he recovered from breaking stride right after the start, overpowered the field in the stretch to win the $50,000 International Trot at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway...
...whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from a jet aircraft...
...With an ear to such warnings, businessmen have begun to pay more heed to spreading the dividends of increased production and cost-cutting automation. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced an "anti-inflation" cut of 5% to 15% in prices of replacement tires. Norge reduced its washer and dryer tags as much as 10%. The Federal Communications Commission chimed in, ordered a reluctant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to reduce long-distance telephone rates (for calls of more than 300 miles) by $50 million. In heavy industry-where cuts trickle down eventually to the consumer-General Electric lopped...