Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed a mimeographed statement around the hearing room. McCarthy grabbed a copy, gawked at it with astonishment, and rushed it by messenger around the table to his friend from Illinois, Senator Everett Dirksen. Promptly, Dirksen blew a stream of earnest, oily words into Potter's ear. Charlie merely smiled...
...women become doctors? Out of love for their fellow humans? For the fascination of medical science? To turn a respectable fast buck? Most doctors are hard put to diagnose their own professional motives. In a collection of essays and excerpts, Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, himself a noted Chicago ear, nose and throat specialist, lets 50 of the world's best-known doctors and ex-doctors explain Why We Became Doctors (Grune & Stratton; $3.75). The medical men who are most articulate about their choice generally have achieved equal or greater fame as writers. Among the contributions...
...Lift of Courage. Asked for a comment on his first 16 months in office, one-third of his term, the President scratched his left ear and replied reflectively: He didn't enter this kind of task with any idea it was going to be a picnic. There are many frustrations. But you get inspirations that you hadn't expected...
...Beethoven fan once said that the only way to get the real "feel" of his master's voice was to turn the phonograph up to maximum volume, lie on the floor, fasten one end of a rubber hose over the bellowing speaker, the other into one's ear. A simpler way of being pounded to jelly is to read a novel by France's Louis-Ferdinand Cèline. No rubber hose can convey the feel of Cèline, nor can his own favorite exclamations, such as "Bam!", "Bang!", "Zoom!", "Zimm!", "Rrpp!", "Rrooo!", "Rraap!", "Rrango!", "Whah...
...French crooks in the underworld of London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams...