Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services, often are bothered by gremlins who sit on their shoulders and make a noise like a knocking motor when the motor is running smoothly. When a pilot has been flying for a long time through clouds, a gremlin may whisper into the pilot's ear: "You fathead, you're flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets. (But usually this is done by widgets.) Sometimes a gremlin puts his finger over...
...Some time ago you spoke of the difficulty night-shift workers have in sleeping in the daytime [TIME, June 15]. A black sock worn spectacle fashion should help (the toe over one ear, the top over the other-and the middle covering eyes and nose). It is cool, dark and comfortable...
Wise, fact-demanding Bernie Baruch is 72 this week, and somewhat deaf. But his friends know that when he cups his hand to his good right ear and asks that a question be repeated he is often just stalling. And he can well make a park bench his office: he carries all the facts and principles of war economy in his patrician head...
...olive vestido de corte, his sideburns shadowed by his flat-crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner's luck passing José Maria...
...business section is an ear-shattering din of crawling tanks, trains, of street cars, lorries, motorcycles, marching men and policemen's whistles. Newly arrived troops queue up to register at various headquarters before going to the front. If they have spare time-and usually they have not-they roam into music shops to have balalaikas repaired or buy new ones, get shaved by women barbers, watch the pretty girls, have their nails manicured, or read the latest newspapers slapped on billboards. Above the sound and fury are the protecting wings of Red Air Force bombers and fighters...