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  • When pressed one ear-witness admitted that "weaker soldiers" might have been affected but insisted that most servicemen "got a big kick out of the broadcasts and thought they were a big joke."

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • I am an "ear-witness" to the original broadcast, and Mr. Sargent is in error; no such thing was said.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Exclusive: Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday 2009

  • I am an "ear-witness" to the original broadcast, and Mr. Sargent is in error; no such thing was said.

    Exclusive: Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday 2009

  • And the very same afternoon being sole ear-witness to a trio of corrupt Rwandan army officers haggling with a Chinese delegation over the sale of plundered Congolese minerals?

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • And the very same afternoon being sole ear-witness to a trio of corrupt Rwandan army officers haggling with a Chinese delegation over the sale of plundered Congolese minerals?

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Jerry reported, who was an eye and ear-witness of the scene — and was afterwards borne shoulder-high into the hotel.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Listening, as she lay in her hammock, to the wild, strange chords flung from under Rosanne's fingers, and again the plaintive, tender notes that stole out like wounded birds and fluttered away on broken wings to the sunlight, Kitty realized that she was an ear-witness to the interpretation of a soul's pain.

    Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

  • If Flora Miles was telling the truth, here went a-flying his only eye-witness, probably, or rather, his only ear-witness.

    Murder at Bridge Anne Austin

  • I therefore will show you my opinion of this gifted but unfortunate genius: it may be estimated as worth little, but it has this merit: it comes from an eye-and ear-witness, and this, it must be remembered, is the very highest of legal evidence.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • The entertainment consisted, if I may trust an ear-witness, of a little bad music worse played, a little declamation, a glass of wine, and democracy untainted with the least suspicion of snobbery.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

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