Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chief's ace sophomore at 150. Stan Sotherdan, will be out with a bad ear infection, and after that the line-up goes downhill. However, two-year letterman Bill Kendle-berry is back at heavyweight for the first time this year after an injury...
When asked yesterday, afternoon about his future plans, Couming said, "We'll have to play it by ear. I'm just going to wait here until the marshals come to get me. I think it'll be a few days though-they're scared to come in and bust a Catholic church." He said that "under no circumstances" would he leave the country...
...time. In 1963, after he had been selected to pilot one of the early Gemini flights, Shepard was dropped from space flight and barred even from flying except when accompanied by another pilot. Reason: he was plagued by Meniere's syndrome, a puzzling disturbance of the inner ear, possibly caused by a buildup of fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation...
Shepard should fit very well into Apollo 14's command seat. His ear now seems in excellent shape. "I still have a muted ringing in it, like a dog whistle," he says, "but I hardly notice it." He has also apparently mastered, in spite of initial difficulties, the split-second control techniques of the tricky lunar lander. Indeed, his confidence should help bolster all of NASA at a critical moment in its history. "I suppose," muses Shepard, "if we don't make it back to earth, somebody will say the poor son of a bitch wasn...
...knows the value of clarity and coherence. As a full-fledged (though nonpracticing) doctor, he certainly does not inflate pot; he seems to see it simply as a pleasurable, nonaddictive drug somewhat less harmful than alcohol. Moreover, Michael has a kid brother Douglas, a student with a fine ear for the funky idiom of youth plus patent expertise about marijuana as a commodity and a mystique. Combining their talents under the pseudonym "Michael Douglas," the Crichton boys manufactured Dealing in a matter of months...