Word: earshot
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...Middle East last week were Jack Benny, Larry Adler with his harmonica, Al Jolson with a harmonium; Ray Bolger was in the South Pacific, Judith Anderson in Hawaii. A while back Martha Raye went to the foxholes of Tunisia; and in New Guinea a show went on within earshot of the Japs. From the ranks of show business have sprung heroes and even martyrs,* but so far only one legend...
...perched on a hill behind deep and well-gunned passes, might require a month of siege. It fell in a matter of hours to a Ranger detachment of 50 officers and men. After a tense, hard march in the night, Privates John C. See and John Constantine crept within earshot of the garrison, lolling and chatting beside their guns and trucks at the top of a high pass. Constantine, one of the many Italian-speaking soldiers in the Seventh Army, called upon them to surrender. The few German officers with them tried to make the Italians fight. After...
...Army & Navy technicians had given the nod to a highly portable little gadget called the Magnetic Wire Sound Recorder-an instrument about the size of a portable typewriter. It records the human voice and other sounds within earshot...
Woodrow Wilson said in part : "We told our fellow men throughout the world, when we set up the free state of America, that we wanted to serve liberty everywhere and be friends of men. . . ." No one but those within earshot heard more than an occasional word. No one had told Woodrow Wilson about the hookup...
Solution. In Fresno, Calif., Leonard D. Williams, mighty snorer, was discharged from the Army, which had finally given up trying to find him a sleeping-place within bounds and out of earshot...