Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rennie Davis & Co. don't know what is in the heads of the people who go to work every day, maybe someone should try whispering the message quietly in their ears: "You are demonstrating in the wrong city, you idiots. Try Hanoi." Maybe our semisacred fourth estate should lend an ear to that message a little more often...
...showcase, has built skyscrapers and an enlightened image alongside black slums that are well on the way to duplicating the misery and hopelessness of ghettos in Northern cities. Savannah rebuilds its historic colonial neighborhoods while the city fathers worry that air pollution is killing the Spanish moss. The ear of memory rings with the voices of two Georgians who articulated the state's opposites: Racist Demagogue Eugene Talmadge, who once said, "The Negro belongs to an inferior race," and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who promised, "We shall overcome...
...suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging a lonely, four-year war against the routine and endemic corruption that he and others claim is rife...
...Peter Halberg, corresponding secretary of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. "If you get hurt by the hard lens, you usually know it immediately." A soft lens, he noted, may mask the warning discomfort of an eye injury. Indeed, Dr. Richard Troutman, surgeon director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, has already seen three "complications" involving experimental soft contact lenses. The patients later required cornea grafts...
Plastic surgery is practically a branch of show business, but few showfolk talk about their operations on the Johnny Carson Show. British Actress Sarah Miles, however, didn't mind telling 7,200,000 viewers: "I had an ear job." Her ears, she said, "not only stuck out, but they had no shape at all. They used to flap in the wind." Miss Miles' now unflappable ears have given her considerable self-confidence. Asked whom she would choose to be alone with for six months, she said: "Hitler. If I had six months, I might be able to corrupt...