Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before the first cyclists huffed into sight, the quiet provinces were invaded by a loud caravan of sound trucks and spielers. Everywhere, the ear was assaulted by pitchmen peddling Nescafé, Cinzano, Perrier water, soap flakes, rubber tires. L'Equipe sent a nightclub songstress to put on her act wherever the Tour stopped for the night. A few irritated sportsmen muttered that no one would have noticed if the bike riders never showed...
...informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...
...court could pass on his mental condition, thus preventing it from becoming an issue in the vote-fraud trial. Two days later, just across the Mississippi state line near Waynesboro, Garrett's car plunged off the highway. His neck was broken, one elbow fractured and his left ear almost torn off. But doctors said the attorney general of Alabama will live to stand trial...
...almost to death (the sound-effects man completely wore out his taxi horn on Gershwin's An American in Paris), and at some performances the concert hall all but emptied for good at intermission time. But the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos got the ear of General William M. Hoge, Commander...
Soon after, she published a book of poetry that showed a feeling ear for the English she could not hear, and then set forth on the first of the long lecture tours-speaking in a sort of strangled soprano, which is the closest she can come to intelligible English, with Teacher Sullivan translating-that were to make her name a household word...