Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Splitting up into racially-mixed pairs or groups of four, the travelers would board busses and sent themselves well towards the front of the ear. The driver's attempt to put the Negroes in the Jim Crow rear seats was always met with a polite, "I'd rather sit here...
...doesn't take any earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...that the standard U.S. fighter plane for 1948 would be Republic's P-84. Surnamed the Thunderjet, the P84 is probably the world's fastest fighter in tactical service.* Combat-loaded, the Thunderjet's speed is more than 600 m.p.h. Its sound in flight is an ear-cracking whoosh...
Edie prefers to drink coffee laced with rum, never lets the house pick up the check. Says she: "When a guy takes me out, he takes out a girl -not a column." But the "Rambling Reporter" goes along too. As Edith says: "Everything I hear goes in one ear and out the column...
...also a physician at New England Deaconess Hospital and consultant at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston...